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Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Introduction

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Release Status Maintained
Release Model Stable
Package Manager dnf
Default Desktops GNOME
Usage Type Desktop, Server
Architectures aarch64, i386, ia64, IBM Z, ppc, ppc64el, s390, s390x, x86_64, x86-64-v2
Website redhat.com
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Workstation showing GNOME Shell 40

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, commonly abbreviated as RHEL, is a commercial Linux 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 profits from this distribution by providing 24/7 technical support to business customers.[2]

Controversy

Red Hat originally freely provided its source code, but restricted free re-distributions of the officially supported versions of RHEL. Derivative distributions such as Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux were able to be redistributed by removing Red Hat's trademarks. In 2023, Red Hat stopped publicly providing the source code for RHEL.[3] However, it is still available to customers and developers under a Non Disclosure Agreement.