Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution created by Red Hat and targeted toward the business market. A release of RHEL is supported for 7 years from release, and all of Red Hat's official support, hardware, software, and RHCT RHCE and RHCA training is based around Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Linux distribution - Red Hat - RHCT - RHCE - RHCA

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New releases of RHEL come out every 18 months. As customers only pay for support, when a new version of RHEL is released during the support period, customers may upgrade to it for no additional charge.

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There are four flavors of RHEL: Red Hat Desktop, WS (workstation), ES (edge server, or a departmental- and entry-level server), AS (advanced server).

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Originally, RHEL was based on Red Hat Linux, but with a much more conservative release cycle. Now it's based off proven technologies from Fedora Core.

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Red Hat Linux - Fedora Core

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CentOS, Scientific Linux and White Box Enterprise Linux are free enterprise linux alternatives which aim to be compatible with RHEL.

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CentOS - Scientific Linux - White Box Enterprise Linux - Free enterprise linux alternatives

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