Red Hat Linux
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Red Hat Linux 9's default desktop
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| Developer | Red Hat |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Discontinued |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | May 13, 1995 |
| Latest release | 9 alias Shrike / March 31, 2003 |
| Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Userland | GNU |
| License | Various |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fedora |
| Official website | www |
Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a widely used Linux distribution until its discontinuation in 2004.
Early releases of Red Hat Linux were called Red Hat Commercial Linux; randyl report a Red Hat first published the software on November 3, 1994. It was the first Linux distribution to use the RPM Package Manager as its packaging format, and over time has served as the starting point for several other distributions, such as Mandriva Linux and Yellow Dog Linux.
In 2003, Red Hat discontinued the Red Hat Linux line in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for enterprise environments. Fedora, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat, is a free-of-cost alternative intended for home use. Red Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on April 30, 2004, although updates were published for it through 2006 by the Fedora Legacy project until that shut down in early 2007.
Version 3.0.3 was one of the first Linux distributions to support Executable and Linkable Format instead of the older a.out format.
Red Hat Linux introduced a graphical installer called Anaconda developed by Ketan Bagal, intended to be easy to use for novices, and which has since been adopted by some other Linux distributions. It also introduced a built-in tool called Lokkit for configuring the firewall capabilities.
In version 6 Red Hat moved to glibc 2.1, egcs-1.2, and to the 2.2 kernel. It also introduced Kudzu, a software library for automatic discovery and configuration of hardware.
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