Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The enterprise standard: certified, supported for a decade and the base of the RHEL clones. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2002
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Paid
- Website
- https://www.redhat.com/rhel
- Family
- Red Hat / Fedora
- Based on
- Fedora, via CentOS Stream
- Package manager
- DNF
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- A major every 3 years, a minor every 6 months
- Support lifetime
- 10 years, more with extended support
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- GNOME
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Server, Cloud
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x