Lua error in Module:DistributionInfobox at line 23: data must be either of type string or number. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commonly abbreviated as RHEL, is a commercial distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market and the first version of RHEL was released on the February 22, 2000.[1]
Red Hat originally freely provided its source code but restricted free re-distributions of the officially supported versions of RHEL. Derivative distros such as Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux were able to be redistributed by removing Red Hat's trademarks. In 2023 Red Hat stopped publically providing the source code of RHEL however it is still avalible to customers and developers under the condition that they do not redistribute the source code.[2]
- ↑ Red Hat Enterprise Edition Product Line Optimizes Solutions for Top E-business Applications Press release by Red Hat. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
- ↑ Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams The Register. Retrieved 24 June 2023.