Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux [ ɹɛd HAET linʊks ] ( RHL ) was one of the best-known Linux distributions. It was compiled by the company Red Hat. She was hired in September 2003 and went in the Fedora Project and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on.

History of Distribution

Version 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. RHL is thus not quite as old as Slackware but older than most other distributions. For RHL the RPM package format was developed, which is now used by most commercial distributions for the distribution of software packages. Various other distributions have started their story originally as a branch of Red Hat Linux, such as the desktop -oriented Linux Mandriva (originally no more than a "Red Hat Linux with KDE " ), Yellow Dog Linux (actually a "Red Hat Linux PowerPC support " ), Red Flag Linux, Aurox Linux and ASPLinux ( " Red Hat Linux with better support for non- Latin character sets ").

Red Hat Linux has traditionally been developed exclusively within Red Hat, the only feedback of users had their bug reports ( "bug reports" ) or ( indirect) contributions to the incorporated open - source software packages. This changed on September 22, 2003, when Red Hat 's end-user activities and therefore Red Hat Linux brought into the community -based Fedora Project. This step laid the foundation for an open, closely networked with the community development model of a new distribution that in future the basis of the other products from Red Hat should represent. It was also decided to bring out only an enterprise version of the commercial distribution and Red Hat Linux in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora adjust on the one on the other side.

Special features of the distribution

Red Hat Linux with a graphical installer called Anaconda (The name is a reference to the Python programming language in which the application was written ) installed, which is easy to use even for beginners. To configure the built-in firewall, there was the built-in tool Lokkit. The design was dominated by both widely praised and criticized Desktop Theme Blue Curve, which provided a uniform look and feel of Gnome and KDE.

The 1995 Red Hat Linux 2.0 entwickelnte RPM Package Manager originally Red Hat Package Manager was called, was responsible for all subsequent versions of RHL for package management. RPM has been adopted by many other Linux distributions, such as SUSE, Mageia or Mandriva Linux and is now part of the LSB standards. Also some Unix systems, such as IBM AIX or Solaris, and non- Unix-like systems such as Novell NetWare used RPM.

Since Red Hat Linux 8.0, Red Hat had gone over to involve only software that is completely free. For this reason, for example, lacked the skills to play MP3 files or access NTFS partitions because these patented processes involved. Another peculiar feature with the Red Hat Linux 8 was conversion to UTF -8 dar. Red Hat Linux was therefore one of the first distributions that sat consistently in this character encoding and Unicode.

Versions

The release data related to the public announcements in the newsgroups comp.os.linux.announce, and not on the actual commercial availability. For more information about the version names, see Fedora and Red Hat version name.

The end of Red Hat Linux

End of April 2004 ended the Red Hat support for all Red Hat Linux versions to fully concentrate on the business sector and RHEL. From the code base of RHL 9 2003 Fedora Core 1 was obtained. The more free supply of existing RHL releases that contain patches, the Fedora Project imagine by Fedora Legacy safely to 2006. In addition, Red Hat offered after acquiring a license Progeny Support for RHL 8 and 9 until the year 2011.