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Red Hat Linux was a commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until 2004. It was one of the first to support ELF binaries, GNOME desktop, and UTF-8 encoding, and was discontinued in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux.
Learn about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Find out its variants, history, relationship with Fedora Linux, and source code availability.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives generally include the union set [clarification needed], which is included in the different versions of RHEL.The version numbers are typically identical to the ones featured in RHEL; as such, the free versions maintain binary compatibility with the paid-for version, which means software intended for RHEL typically runs just as well on a free version.
RPM is a free and open-source package management system for Linux and other operating systems. It uses the .rpm file format to store software packages and their dependencies, and can be verified, updated and installed with various front-ends.
Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM that provides open source software products, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has acquired several proprietary software products and became the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel.
CentOS was a free and open-source operating system that provided a platform similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It was discontinued in 2021 and replaced by CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux.
Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, first released in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is widely used on servers, supercomputers, embedded devices, and desktop computers, and is licensed under various free software licenses.
DNF or Dandified YUM is the next-generation version of yum, a package manager for .rpm-based Linux distributions. It uses libdnf and libsolv libraries, supports Python 3, and is the default command-line package manager for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.