Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, designed for enterprise servers, workstations, and cloud deployments. It provides a stable, secure, and high-performance operating system backed by long-term support, certifications, and a…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2000
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- RHEL was created to provide a commercially supported, highly stable, secure, and certified Linux distribution suitable for mission-critical enterprise workloads. It addressed the limitations of community-driven distributions, which lacked the long-term support, predictability, and commercial backing essential for large-scale business adoption.
- Platforms
- linux, Bare metal servers, x86-64, ARM64 (aarch64), IBM Power (ppc64le), Cloud environments, IBM Z (s390x), Virtual machines
Related technologies
Notable users
- Major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Microsoft, Google)
- Telecommunication providers
- Financial institutions
- Government agencies
- Many Fortune 500 companies