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==Nomenclature==
==Nomenclature==
The official nameset of the Red Hat Linux distribution was ''Red Hat Linux'' (often abbreviated to ''RHL''). The first part, ''Red Hat'', is that of the Red Hat software company. The second part, ''Linux'', refers to the underlying [[Linux kernel]] written by [[Linus Torvalds]].
The official nameset of the Red Hat Linux distribution was ''Red Hat Linux'' (often abbreviated to ''RHL''). The first part, ''Red Hat'', is that of the Red Hat software company. The second part, ''Linux'', refers to the underlying [[Linux kernel]] written by [[Linus Torvalds]].

==Events Chronicle==
The items quoted from official website of Red Hat,<ref>https://www.redhat.com/about/company/history.html Red Hat History From Its Offical Website</ref> and being simplified, which includes product release information and cooperation with other companies.

;1968
:ARPANET founded.
;1969
:Ken Thompson, researcher at Bell Labs, writes the first version of UNIX.
;1979
:AT&T announces plans to commercialize UNIX.
;1987
:Andrew Tanenbaum releases MINIX, a version of UNIX for the PC, Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST. Source code included.
;1989
:The Free Software Foundation releases version 1 of the GNU General Public License.
:Michael Tiemann (Red Hat vice president, Open Source Affairs) co-founds Cygnus Solutions, the first business to provide custom engineering and support services for free software.
;1991
:Linus Torvalds releases the Linux® kernel.
;1994
:Marc Ewing creates his own distribution of Linux, which he names Red Hat® Linux. Released in October, it becomes known as the Halloween release.
;1995
:Young buys Ewing's business, merges it with ACC Corporation, and names the new company Red Hat Software.
:Red Hat Linux 2.0 is released, and Red Hat officially unveils the new package management system called RPM.
;1996
:Red Hat opens sales and administration functions to North Carolina and opens corporate headquarters in Durham, NC.
;1997
:'''May''', The Red Hat training model and the term Red Hat Certified Engineer are first developed as the benchmark for technical skills required of Red Hat support partners worldwide.
:'''July''', Red Hat Linux 4.2 is released.
:'''December''', Red Hat announces Red Hat Linux 5.0, followed by the introduction of telephone technical support.
;1998
:'''December''', The first formal RHCE® training course, class sessions and dates, and the RHCE exam are announced. IDC reports that Linux installations grew by 212% from the previous year, outpacing growth rates of UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT, Netware, and all other server operating systems.
;1999
:'''February''', IBM and Red Hat announce Linux Alliance.
:'''April''', Dell becomes the first major computer vendor to factory-install Red Hat Linux on servers and workstations. Red Hat Linux 6.0 is released.
:'''October''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Linux 6.1.
:'''November''', Red Hat is named one of the top 20 Best Regarded technology companies and top 10 for Vision and Leadership in the Harris Interactive survey.Red Hat acquires Cygnus, creating the largest open source company in the world.
;2000
:'''February''', InfoWorld awards Red Hat with its fourth-consecutive Operating System Product of the Year award for Red Hat Linux 6.1.
:'''June''', Red Hat and Dell create the One Source Alliance.
:'''September''', Red Hat Network launches and Red Hat Linux 7.0 is released.
;2001
:'''January''', Linus Torvalds releases the highly anticipated 2.4 Linux kernel.
:'''April''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Linux 7.1, the first release to incorporate the 2.4 kernel. Red Hat also launches Software Manager for Red Hat Network, providing real-time bug notification, security alerts, and software updates.
:'''October''', Red Hat Linux 7.2 is released.
;2002
:'''January''', RHCE program rated no. 1 IT certification program for overall quality in Fairfield Research survey.
:'''April''', Dreamworks, a major Red Hat customer, reveals that hit film "Shrek" was rendered on Red Hat Linux servers. It also releases "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," the first animated film to be created entirely on Linux workstations and rendered on Linux servers.
:'''May''', Red Hat announces the Red Hat Alliance. Committed partners include Alias|Wavefront, BMC, Borland, Checkpoint, Computer Associates, Dell, HP, IBM, Legato Systems, Novell, Oracle, Rogue Wave, Softimage, Synopsys, TIBCO, and VERITAS. Red Hat officially announces its entry into the enterprise with the Enterprise-Ready Linux event with partners Oracle and Dell. Red Hat introduces the first enterprise-class Linux operating system: Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. Dell, IBM, HP, Oracle, and VERITAS announce their support of the platform.
:'''September''', Red Hat Linux 8.0 is released, introducing new Bluecurve desktop. IBM and Red Hat announce a global multiyear alliance to deliver enterprise Linux solutions. Microsoft's Ballmer says that Microsoft does not plan to offer software for Linux.
;2003
:'''January''', Red Hat Network registers its 1 millionth system.
:'''March''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux family of operating system products is launched, including server and workstation operating systems. HP and Red Hat announce an expanded global agreement to deliver enterprise Linux solutions.
:'''September''', Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project merge, creating the Fedora Project, a community collaboration of Red Hat employees and volunteers; Red Hat Enterprise Linux becomes a distinct downstream of the Fedora distribution, with maintenance and support available under a subscription model.
:'''October''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 is released.
;2004
:'''May''', Red Hat Desktop 3 is released, focused as Red Hat's first dedicated desktop product.
:'''June''',Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is released as a solution for files to be stored in a single file system shared by numerous servers.
:'''August''', The Red Hat Application Server—a server that works with other Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 2.0 (J2EE™) application servers from IBM, BEA, and Oracle—is released.
:'''November''', Red Hat opens its first office in China in the capital city of Beijing.
:'''December''', Red Hat teams up with IBM to launch a joint Linux ISV Certification Support System in Europe, providing support for independent software vendors (ISVs) who wish to certify applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM hardware and middleware.
;2005
:'''February''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is released.
:'''June''', Red Hat opens its second office in China, based in Shanghai. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 wins Operating System and Server Product of the Year at the 2005 Techworld Network Awards in London.
:'''August''', Red Hat releases the Red Hat Certificate System as a part of its Security in a Networked World initiative.
:'''October''', Red Hat releases its first performance-based security certification, the Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS), as its latest milestone in the Security in a Networked World initiative.
;2006
:'''April''', Red Hat teams up with Intel to launch the Red Hat-Intel Solution Acceleration Program, the first of its kind to help customers plan for, accelerate, and optimize their deployments of Linux solutions. Red Hat signs a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss®.
:'''June''', Red Hat completes acquisition of JBoss. JBoss releases JBoss Seam 1.0. Red Hat acquires JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware.
:'''October''', Red Hat releases Fedora Core 6.
:'''November''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 becomes available.
;2007
:'''January''', Red Hat launches Certified Service Provider Program.
:'''February''', Red Hat launches Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform. Red Hat readies virtualization for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
:'''March''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
:'''May''', IBM and Red Hat announce the worldwide Enterprise Linux-On-Mainframe Program. Red Hat releases Fedora 7.
:'''July''', Red Hat delivers JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.
:'''November''', Red Hat announces Linux Automation strategy with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. Red Hat announces that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available on demand on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Fedora 8 is released.
;2008
:'''February''', Red Hat announces the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. JBoss World is held in Orlando, Fla.
:'''March''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 beta.
:'''June''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Directory Server win SIIA CODiE Awards. Red Hat announces that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform will be available in the cloud on Amazon EC2. Red Hat Enterprise MRG version one is available. Red Hat open sources RHN Satellite code base under the Spacewalk Project.
:'''August''', The Fedora Project announces a new scholarship program for college and university students active in open source communities.
:'''September''', Red Hat advances its virtualization initiatives by acquiring Qumranet, Inc.
:'''November''', The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project releases Fedora 10.
;2009
:'''January''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is released.
:'''February''', Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 is released. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 is available. Red Hat and IBM celebrate 10 years of global partnership.
:'''March''', JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 – Portfolio Edition is released.
:'''May''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 is available.
:'''June''', JBoss Operations Network 2.2 is available. Fedora 11 is released to the community.
:'''July''', Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta is available.
:'''September''', JBoss Operations Network 2.3 is released in conjunction with the availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 becomes generally available as the first open source release of the product. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is released, featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology alongside of Xen virtualization technology for the first time.
:'''November''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers, offering a new choice in server virtualization and virtualization management to the market.
;2010
:'''March''', IBM selects Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service for development and test.
:'''April''', Amazon Web Services is announced as the first Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider that enables customers to extend their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions into the cloud simply and easily with Red Hat Cloud Access.
:'''May''', Fedora 13 is released to the community.
:'''June''', Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2.
:'''November''', Fedora 14 is released to the community. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is released, offering enterprise IT a firm foundation for a virtualized and cloud-focused future.
:'''December''', Red Hat releases JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.1.
;2011
:'''March''', Red Hat releases JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1.
:'''April''', Red Hat launches JBoss Developer Studio 4. Red Hat submits new JSRs to advance Java EE 7 as the application platform for the cloud.
:'''May''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Red Hat launches Fedora 15.
:'''June''', Red Hat introduces TorqueBox 1.0. Red Hat Training launches Red Hat Cloud Architecture course. Red Hat launches Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0.
:'''July''', Red Hat releases JBoss Application Server 7.
:'''August''', Red Hat OpenShift becomes first to deliver Java EE 6 via PaaS. Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta.
:'''November''', Red Hat launches Fedora 16. Red Hat kicks off EMEA Red Hat Cloud Tour.
:'''December''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 achieves large-scale Linux configuration results certified on 2-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark. Red Hat launches JBoss Operations Network 3.0. Red Hat launches JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.
;2012
:'''January''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1.
:'''February''', Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.
:'''March''', Red Hat announces beta availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and JBoss Developer Studio 5.
:'''April''', Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta. Red Hat announces the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.
:'''May''', Red Hat and IBM achieve top security certification for KVM Hypervisor on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Servers.
:'''June''', Red Hat announces global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3. Red Hat introduces JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.3, providing a comprehensive platform for business rules, processes, and complex event processing (CEP). Red Hat announces that Red Hat OpenShift is the first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to support the Java EE 6 full profile in the cloud. Red Hat announces the global availability of Red Hat Storage Server 2.0.


==Version history==
==Version history==

Revision as of 15:43, 7 May 2014

"RHL" redirects here. For other uses, see RHL (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Fedora Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat logo
File:RedHatLinux9.png
Red Hat Linux 9's default desktop
DeveloperRed Hat
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseMay 13, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-05-13)
Latest release9 alias Shrike / March 31, 2003
Package managerRPM Package Manager
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
LicenseVarious
Succeeded byRed Hat Enterprise Linux
Official websitewww.redhat.com

Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.[1]

Early releases of Red Hat Linux were called Red Hat Commercial Linux; Red Hat first published the software on November 3, 1994.[2] 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 the free version best suited 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.[3]

Features

Version 3.0.3 was one of the first Linux distributions to support Executable and Linkable Format instead of the older a.out format.[4]

Red Hat Linux introduced a graphical installer called Anaconda, 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.[5] It also introduced Kudzu, a software library for automatic discovery and configuration of hardware.[6]

Version 7 was released in preparation for the 2.4 kernel, although the first release still used the stable 2.2 kernel. Glibc was updated to version 2.1.92, which was a beta of the upcoming version 2.2 and Red Hat used a patched version of GCC from CVS that they called "2.96".[7] The decision to ship an unstable GCC version was due to GCC 2.95's bad performance on non-i386 platforms, especially DEC Alpha.[8] Newer GCCs had also improved support for the C++ standard, which caused much of the existing code not to compile.

In particular, the use of a non-released version of GCC caused some criticism, e.g. from Linus Torvalds'[9] and The GCC Steering Committee;[10] Red Hat was forced to defend their decision.[11] GCC 2.96 failed to compile the Linux kernel, and some other software used in Red Hat, due to stricter checks. It also had an incompatible C++ ABI with other compilers. The distribution included a previous version of GCC for compiling the kernel, called "kgcc".

As of Red Hat Linux 8.0, UTF-8 was enabled as the default character encoding for the system. This had little effect on English-speaking users, but enabled much easier internationalisation and seamless support for multiple languages, including ideographic, bi-directional and complex script languages along with European languages. However, this did cause some negative reactions among existing Western European users, whose legacy ISO-8859-based setups were broken by the change.[citation needed]

Version 8.0 was also the second to include the Bluecurve desktop theme. It used a common theme for GNOME-2 and KDE 3.0.2 desktops, as well as OpenOffice-1.0. KDE members did not appreciate the change, claiming that it was not in the best interests of KDE.[12]

Version 9 supported the Native POSIX Thread Library, which was ported to the 2.4 series kernels by Red Hat.[13]

Red Hat Linux lacked many features due to possible copyright and patent problems. For example, MP3 support was disabled in both Rhythmbox and XMMS; instead, Red Hat recommended using Ogg Vorbis, which has no patents. MP3 support, however, could be installed afterwards, although royalties are required everywhere MP3 is patented.[citation needed] Support for Microsoft's NTFS file system was also missing, but could be freely installed as well.

Fedora

Main article: Fedora (operating system)

Red Hat Linux was originally developed exclusively inside Red Hat, with the only feedback from users coming through bug reports and contributions to the included software packages – not contributions to the distribution as such. This was changed in late 2003 when Red Hat Linux merged with the community-based Fedora Project. The new plan is to draw most of the codebase from Fedora when creating new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. Fedora replaces the original Red Hat Linux download and retail version. The model is similar to the relationship between Netscape Communicator and Mozilla, or StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, although in this case the resulting commercial product is also fully free software.

Nomenclature

The official nameset of the Red Hat Linux distribution was Red Hat Linux (often abbreviated to RHL). The first part, Red Hat, is that of the Red Hat software company. The second part, Linux, refers to the underlying Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.

Version history

Box cover shot of Red Hat Linux 5.2
Red Hat 5.0 CDROMs

Release dates were drawn from announcements on comp.os.linux.announce. Version names are chosen as to be cognitively related to the prior release, yet not related in the same way as the release before that.[14][15]

The Fedora and Red Hat Projects were merged on September 22, 2003.[16]

Template:Releases Red Hat Linux

See also

References

  1. ^ "Free_Versions_of_Red_Hat_Linux_to_be_Discontinued". fusionauthority.com. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
  2. ^ ACC Corp.   View profile    More options (August 1, 1995). "COMMERCIAL: Red Hat Commercial Linux 1.1, Pacific Hi-Tech CD set. - comp.os.linux.announce | Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  3. ^ "The Fedora Legacy Project". fedoralegacy.org. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
  4. ^ Linux Distributions Compared, Linux Journal, 1996
  5. ^ "The Truth Behind Red Hat/Fedora Names". Smoogespace.com. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  6. ^ "Various Kudzu facts". Everything2.com. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  7. ^ "Distributions". LWN. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  8. ^ "a/rh-tools". Lwn.net. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  9. ^ "Linus Weighs in on Red Hat 7 Compiler Issues". Linux Today. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  10. ^ "Gerald Pfeifer - GCC 2.96". Gcc.gnu.org. 2000-10-06. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  11. ^ An Open Letter From Bob Young, Slashdot.org, Thu October 12, 2000 12:52 PM
  12. ^ "Red Hat nullifies KDE, Gnome". The Register. 2002-09-17. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  13. ^ "Red Hat Linux 9 Release Notes". Redhat.com. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  14. ^ "The Truth Behind Red Hat/Fedora Names". smoogespace.com. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
  15. ^ History of Red Hat Linux - Fedora wiki
  16. ^ "Fedora and Red Hat to Merge". Retrieved 2008-08-02.
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