August 11, 2008
Red Hat Linux was originally made freely available to anyone who wished to download it. The product line was eventually split into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora. RHEL was designed to be stable and with long term support for enterprise users while Fedora served as the community distribution and project that is sponsored by Red Hat.
Red Hat makes available the complete source code to its enterprise distribution through its FTP site. Some groups have taken this source code to compile their own versions of RHEL, with usually the only changes being the removal of any reference to Red Hat’s trademarks and porting the update systems to non-Red Hat servers. These are the so-called rebuilds which do not get commercial support or consultancy services from Red Hat. They also lack any software, hardware or security certification.
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