Was Red Hat Linux discontinued?

[shujathm4]

Wikipedia says red hat linux has been discontinued since 2004 and I see latest version of linux being released soon with enterprise edition 5. How is that possible.

Thnak you.

[coffeecat]

Red Hat Linux was replaced by the Fedora project which is alive and kicking. I have an installation of Fedora 13 on my laptop, which is very good but I prefer Ubuntu. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also alive and well. It was just a reorganisation. Fedora is used as a testbed for new features which might make their way into Red Hat Enterprise. Red Hat, the company, sponsors and supports the Fedora project.

Have a look at the Wikipedia article on Fedora for more.

[philinux]

Moved to Cafe.

[Dragonbite]

Red Hat linux split into 2 distributions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which is the corporate supported enterprise level Linux
Fedora, which is the community run and maintained distribution which enjoys being sponsored by Red Hat but does posses some automity


Funny thing is Ubuntu/Canonical took Red Hat's original structure (Red Hat) and look how they've done!

[coffeecat]

Funny thing is Ubuntu/Canonical took Red Hat's original structure (Red Hat) and look how they've done!

Yes, but they didn't have to wander around wearing a silly hat. :wink:

[Simian Man]

Funny thing is Ubuntu/Canonical took Red Hat's original structure (Red Hat) and look how they've done!

They're more popular with hobbyists perhaps, but they make significantly less money than Red Hat.

[Dragonbite]

They're more popular with hobbyists perhaps, but they make significantly less money than Red Hat.

I meant more with getting pre-installed on computer systems like Dell and other smaller ones (System76, etc). Being "all-in-one" means Canoncical doesn't have to split between the community version and the supported version. I think this is a large barrier to having more "mainstream" hardware vendors offering installed Linux and Ubuntu's structure allows them what they need (one throat to choke! Canonical's).

SLED is the next closest, but even SLED is behind openSUSE and would have to do a little tweaking before it could tap into the openSUSE resources and still provide the "one throat".

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

They're more popular with hobbyists perhaps, but they make significantly less money than Red Hat.

Agreed.

[ubunterooster]

Wikipedia says Red Hat Linux has been discontinued since 2004 and I see latest version of Linux being released soon with enterprise edition 5. How is that possible.

Thankyou.
Actually, Comcast has been using RHEL 5 for over 6 months.

That Wiki is made by regular people who make mistakes (ie: saying RHEL is discontinued).

[coffeecat]

That Wiki is made by regular people who make mistakes (ie: saying RHEL is discontinued).

It doesn't say that RHEL is discontinued. It says that Red Hat Linux is discontinued - which is different and correct. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hat_linux

[ubunterooster]

It doesn't say that RHEL is discontinued. It says that Red Hat Linux is discontinued - which is different and correct. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hat_linux
Sorry about that. I made a mistake, you corrected me and now I learned something new. So thank you for correcting me.

[cascade9]

Actually, Comcast has been using RHEL 5 for over 6 months.

That Wiki is made by regular people who make mistakes (ie: saying RHEL is discontinued).

Yeah, your right, RHEL has been out since 2010/03/30.

Actually, I'd saythat this thread was made by somebody who didnt read closely, and wikipedia is correct-


Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat), was a popular Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) based operating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system) until its discontinuation in 2004.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux#cite_note-0) Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. It was originally called "Red Hat Commercial Linux"[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux#cite_note-1) It was the first Linux distribution to use the RPM Package Manager (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager) as its packaging format, and over time has served as the starting point for several other distributions, such as Mandriva Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux) and Yellow Dog Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux).
Since 2003, Red Hat has discontinued the Red Hat Linux line in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux) (RHEL) for enterprise environments. Fedora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29), developed by the community-supported Fedora Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 2004-04-30, although updates were published for it through 2006 by the Fedora Legacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Legacy) project until that shut down in early 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux

Seems 100% correct to me? :)

[coffeecat]

Sorry about that. I made a mistake, you corrected me and now I learned something new. So thank you for correcting me.

No problem. :)