Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux was a widely used Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, Inc. It was one of the first popular Linux distributions until its development was discontinued in 2003, with Red Hat Linux being succeeded by the commumity-focused Fedora and the enterpise-oriented Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
==Timeline==
Version	Type 	Code name 	Release date 	Kernel version 	Comment
 	test 	Preview 	29 July 1994 	1.1.18 (dev) 	First test release, not publicly distributed, used RPP package manager.
0.9 	beta 	Halloween 	31 October 1994 	1.0.9 (stable)1.1.54 (dev) 	Purchased beta, came with documentation and graphical system management tools.
1.0 	stable 	Mother's Day 	May 1995 	1.2.8 	ACC Bookstores (Bob Young) bought out Red Hat Software, Inc. (Mark Ewing) and introduced the "Red Hat Commercial Linux" moniker.
1.1 	bug fix	Mother's Day+0.1	August 1995 	1.2.111.2.13 	Called "Mother's Day Plus One".
2.0 	stable 	 	20 September 1995	1.2.13–2 	First stable RPM release. Started using the "Red Hat LiNUX" branding.
2.1 	bug fix	Bluesky 	23 November 1995 	1.2.13 (stable)1.3.32 (dev)	The first Alpha release (January 1996) was based on this version.
3.0.3 	stable 	Picasso 	1 May 1996 	1.2.13 	First version to release multiple architectures (x86/ELF, Alpha/a.out) at the same time. Introduced the Metro-X server, glint graphical management tool for RPM, and graphical printer configuration.
3.9 	beta 	Rembrandt 	July–August 1996 	2.0 	RPM rewritten in C, introduced PAM, kernel modules instead of 72 different kernels.
4.0 	stable 	Colgate 	3 October 1996 	2.0.18 	Added support for the SPARC architecture, ELF for Alpha. Introduced Shadowman™ logo, free electronic format documentation, Red Baron browser.
4.1 	bug fix	Vanderbilt 	3 February 1997 	2.0.27 	InfoWorld, Best of 1996, Operating Systems.
4.2 	stable 	Biltmore 	19 May 1997 	2.0.30–2 	Shipped old libc 5.3 instead of buggy 5.4, avoided many issues this way but was widely criticized for it.
4.8 	beta 	Thunderbird 	27 August 1997 	? 	Introduced glibc 2.0.
4.9 	beta 	Mustang 	7 November 1997 	? 	Cemented the two-cycle beta release style, due to massive changes in C library version.
5.0 	stable 	Hurricane 	1 December 1997 	2.0.32–2 	Introduced BRU2000-PE™ backup and Real Audio™ client and server. 1997 InfoWorld Product of the Year.
5.1 	stable 	Manhattan 	22 May 1998 	2.0.34–0.6 	Introduced the Linux Applications CD, GNOME preview version (separate, not default), linuxconf, Netscape browser. Last release to use live filesystem off the CD.
5.2 	stable 	Apollo 	2 November 1998 	2.0.36–0.7 	GNOME technology preview (separate, not default).
5.9 	beta 	Starbuck 	17 March 1999 	? 	
6.0 	stable 	Hedwig 	26 April 1999 	2.2.5–15 	Introduced glibc 2.1, egcs, 2.2 kernel, integrated GNOME.
6.0.50 	beta 	Lorax 	6 September 1999 	? 	Introduced completely rewritten graphical installer (anaconda), with graphical mode and text mode implemented in Python.
6.1 	stable 	Cartman 	4 October 1999 	2.2.12–20 	InfoWorld, 1999 Product of the Year, Operating Systems, multiple other awards.
6.1.92 	beta 	Piglet 	9 February 2000 	? 	
6.2 	stable 	Zoot 	3 April 2000 	2.2.14–5.0 	First time to offer ISO images for FTP download.
6.9.5 	beta 	Pinstripe 	31 July 2000 	? 	
7.0 	stable 	Guinness 	25 September 2000	2.2.16–22 	First release to support Red Hat Network out of the box. Caused the gcc 2.96 flame war, leading to the 2.96RH name being used later.
7.0.90 	beta 	Fisher 	31 January 2001 	2.4 	First release with 2.4 kernel.
7.0.91 	beta 	Wolverine 	21 February 2001 	? 	
7.1 	stable 	Seawolf 	16 April 2001 	2.4.2–2 	First release to debut a new kernel stream out of the beta cycle. First release to simultaneously support all included languages. Introduced Mozilla browser.
7.1.93 	beta 	Roswell 	2 August 2001 	? 	ext3 becomes default, installer offers to convert ext2 filesystems. LILO replaced with Grub as default.
7.2 	stable 	Enigma 	22 October 2001 	2.4.7–10 	GNOME 1.4, KDE 2.2. Would serve as development basis for RHEL 2.1 AS (Pensacola).
7.2.91 	beta 	Skipjack 	22 March 2002 	? 	Tried to ship a lot of new programs (gcc 3, GTK 2, Python 2), but decided to postpone them for 8.0.
7.3 	stable 	Valhalla 	6 May 2002 	2.4.18–3 	Last release with the Netscape browser.
7.3.29 	beta 	Limbo 	4 July 2002 	? 	Tested 700MB ISO images but they proved problematic.
8.0 	stable 	Psyche 	30 September 2002	2.4.18–14 	gcc 3.2, glibc 2.3 RC, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, GNOME 2, KDE 3.0.3. Introduced Bluecurve™ cross-environment unified look and feel.
9.0 	stable 	Shrike 	31 March 2003 	2.4.20–8 	KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2. Introduced NPTL support with glibc 2.3.2 and kernel 2.4.20. Would serve as development basis for RHEL 3.
9.0.93 	beta 	Severn 	21 July 2003 	? 	Final RHL release. It would be merged with Fedora Linux to form release Fedora Core 1 test 2, version 0.94.
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