Red Hat initially triumphed by seconding a custom Linux distribution, then called "Red Hat" The increase and reliability of Red Hat Linux made both synonymous in the minds of many people. From those early days, Red Hat’s resolutions and technologies have been based on this triumph to integrate almost every point of the IT stack.

Red Hat curates, guarantees and supports a distribution of Linux, now popular as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a change that happened in 2003 as a result of the merger with the Fedora Linux Plan. Today, Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports and powers program and technologies for automation, cloud, container, middleware, storage, application development, microservices, virtualization, management and more. Linux plays a pivotal role as the core of many of Red Hat’s offerings. It goes much further than simply being a server operating system: Linux is the foundation of the updated IT stack.

Release cycle of Linux Red Hat

The RedHat enterprise Linux life cycle has been changing through the time, that is why it is vital to know what the changes and the life cycle of Linux have been.

Red hat enterprise linux version 7 offers full support up to 5.5 years, maintenance support up to 1 year, but Red Hat does not support extensive upgrade or extended lifetime support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.

Red hat does understand the importance of the life cycle for the correct use and satisfaction of customers, partners and for the Linux ecosystem in general, therefore RedHat version 8 and 9 enterprise linux offers a life cycle with full support, together with an extended life cycle maintenance, being a full support the first 5 years, a maintenance support the next 5 years later and then an extended life phase two years after the first 10

Versions

• The version n/a where release on 29 July 1994
• The 0.9 version where release on 31 October 1994
• The 1.0 version where release in May 1995
• The 1.1 version where release in August 1995
• The 2.0 version where release on 20 September 1995
• The 2.1 version where release on 23 November 1995
• The 3.0.3 version where release on 1May 1996
• The 3.9 version where release in July – August 1996
• The 4.0 version where release on 3 October 1996
• The 4.1 version where release on 3 February 1997
• The 4.2 version where release on 19 May 1997
• The 4.8 version where release on 27 August 1997
• The 4.9 version where release on 7 November 1997
• The 5.0 version where release on 1 December 1997
• The 5.1 version where release on 22 May 1998
• The 5.2 version where release on 2 November 1998
• The 5.9 version where release on 17 March 1999
• The 6.0 version where release on 26 April 1999
• The 6.0.50 version where release on 6 September 1999
• The 6.1 version where release on 4 October 1999
• The 6.1.92 version where release on 9 February 2000
• The 6.2 version where release on 3 April 2000
• The 6.9.5 version where release on 31 July 2000
• The 7.0 version where release on 25 September 2000
• The 7.0.90 version where release on 31 January 2001
• The 7.0.91 version where release on 21 February 2001
• The 7.1 version where release on 16 April 2001
• The 7.1.93 version where release on 2 August 2001
• The 7.2 version where release on 22 October 2001
• The 7.2.91 version where release on 22 March 2002
• The 7.3 version where release on 6 May 2002
• The 7.3.29 version where release on 4 July 2002
• The 8.0 version where release on 30 September 2002
• The 9.0 version where release on 31 March 2003
• The 9.0.93 version where release on 21 July 2003

Next versions

RHEL 9 is the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux published a few weeks ago in Red Hat Summit 2022. It comes almost five years after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and does so with interesting new features and global system optimizations that will allow us to run any environment and support any workload.