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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Key facts
- 7
- 7.9 / September 29, 2020 ; 5 years ago ( 2020-09-29 )
- 8
- 8.10 / May 22, 2024 ; 2 years ago ( 2024-05-22 )
- 9
- 9.8 / May 20, 2026 ; 14 days ago ( 2026-05-20 )
- Developer
- Red Hat, Inc.
- Os family
- Linux ( Unix-like )
- Working state
- Current
- Source model
- Open source
- Initial release
- February 22, 2000 ; 26 years ago ( 2000-02-22 )
- Latest release
- 10: 10.2 / May 20, 2026 ; 14 days ago ( 2026-05-20 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Linux distribution
- Series
- Linux
- Follows
- Red Hat Linux
- Based on
- CentOS Stream
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Platform
- IBM Z
- Official website
- www.redhat.com/rhel
- Image
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Workstation showing GNOME Shell 40.png
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- Commons category
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- software version identifier
- 10.1
- public key fingerprint
- 2D6D 2858 5549 E02F 2194 3840 08B8 71E6 A578 7476
- package management system
- RPM Package Manager
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/rhel
- issue tracker URL
- bugzilla.redhat.com/index.cgi
- publication date
- 2002-03-23
- different from
- Red Hat Linux
- inception
- 2000-02-22
- GUI toolkit or framework
- GNOME
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Encyclopedic overview
Latest preview10 Beta / November 14, 2024 18 months ago (2024-11-14) Repositorygitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms Marketing targetCommercial market (servers, mainframes, supercomputers, workstations) Available inMultilingual Update methodDNF or bootc Package managerRPM Supported platformsx86-64 (x86-64-v3 for latest), ARM64, IBM Z, IBM Power Systems Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux) UserlandGNU Default user interfaceGNOME Shell, Bash LicenseVarious free software licenses, plus proprietary binary blobs Preceded byRed Hat Linux Official websiteredhat.com/rhel/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64. Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream serve as its upstream sources. All of Red Hat's official support and training, together with the Red Hat Certification Program, focuses on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red Hat Enterprise Linux” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.