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Red Hat then moved towards splitting its product line into Red Hat Enterprise Linux which was designed to be stable and with long-term support for enterprise users and Fedora as the community distribution and project sponsored by Red Hat. The use of trademarks prevents verbatim copying of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat Enterprise MRG replaces the kernel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL, a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, to provide extra support for real-time computing, together with middleware support for message brokerage and scheduling workload to local or remote virtual machines, grid computing, and cloud computing. [62]
In 2003, Red Hat discontinued the Red Hat Linux line in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for enterprise environments. Fedora Linux , developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat, is a free-of-cost alternative intended for home use.
Red Hat Linux was a popular Linux distribution largely because, while a paid-for supported version was available, a freely downloadable version was also available. Since the only difference between the paid-for option and the free option was support, a great number of people chose to use the free version.
Although it was created for use in Red Hat Linux, RPM is now used in many Linux distributions such as PCLinuxOS, Fedora Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS, openSUSE, OpenMandriva and Oracle Linux. It has also been ported to some other operating systems , such as Novell NetWare (as of version 6.5 SP3), IBM's AIX (as of version 4), [ 7 ] IBM i , [ 8 ] and ...
Kickstart is normally used at sites with many such Linux systems, to allow easy installation [2] and consistent configuration of new computer systems. Kickstart configuration files can be built three ways: By hand. By using the GUI system-config-kickstart tool. By using the standard Red Hat installation program Anaconda.
But Red Hat fends off the Oracle threat and remains the world’s largest distributor of the open-source Linux operating system. January 2008: Jim Whitehurst becomes Red Hat’s third CEO.
The IBM Roadrunner, the world's third fastest supercomputer operated by the US National Nuclear Security Administration, uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora as its operating systems. All supercomputers use Linux by now. In 2013, NASA decided to switch the International Space Station laptops running Windows XP to Debian 6. [156] [157]