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id="_relationship_between_fedora_and_rhel"><a class="anchor" href="#_relationship_between_fedora_and_rhel"></a>Relationship between Fedora and RHEL</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora both are open source operating systems. They are related projects, with Fedora being "upstream" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Whereas Fedora is a community-supported project suitable for different kinds of users, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is enterprise business-oriented software supported via commercial subscription options.</p> </div> <div class="sect2"> <h3 id="_red_hat_enterprise_linux"><a class="anchor" href="#_red_hat_enterprise_linux"></a>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</h3> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise Linux operating system. It is oriented toward enterprise and commercial users, is certified for many hardware and cloud platforms, and is supported by Red Hat via various subscription options. Compared to Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux emphasizes stability and enterprise-readiness over the latest technologies or rapid releases. More information about Red Hat offerings can be found at <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux">Red Hat’s web site</a>.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Individual software developers can access a free-of-charge subscription as part of the <a href="https://developers.redhat.com/about">Red Hat Developer Program</a>. Developers can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on up to 16 physical or virtual systems for development, quality assurance, demos, or small production uses. See the Frequently Asked Questions for the <a href="https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux">No-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2"> <h3 id="_fedora"><a class="anchor" href="#_fedora"></a>Fedora</h3> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Fedora is developed by the Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It follows its own release schedule, with a new version approximately every six months. Fedora provides a modern Linux operating system utilizing many of the latest technologies. It is free for all users and supported via the Fedora community.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>To create Red Hat Enterprise Linux, some version of Fedora is forked and enters an extensive development, testing and certification process to become a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_history_of_red_hat_enterprise_linux_and_fedora"><a class="anchor" href="#_history_of_red_hat_enterprise_linux_and_fedora"></a>History of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Red Hat first offered an enterprise Linux support subscription for Red Hat Linux 6.1. It was not a separate product, but the subscription offering was branded as Red Hat 6.2E. Subsequently, Red Hat started creating a separate product with commercial service level agreements and longer lifecyle based on Red Hat Linux, and later on Fedora.</p> </div> <table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all stretch"> <caption class="title">Table 1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Lineage</caption> <colgroup> <col style="width: 25%;"> <col style="width: 25%;"> <col style="width: 25%;"> <col style="width: 25%;"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Release</th> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Codename</th> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Release Date</th> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Based on</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Linux 6.2E</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Zoot</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2000-03-27</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Linux 6.2</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Pensacola (AS)/ Panama (ES)</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2002-03-26 (AS)</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Linux 7.2</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Taroon</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2003-10-22</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Linux 9</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Nahant</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2005-02-15</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Fedora Core 3</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Tikanga</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2007-03-14</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Fedora Core 6</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Santiago</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2010-11-10</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Mix of Fedora 12 Fedora 13 and several modifications</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Maipo</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2014-06-10</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Primarily Fedora 19 with several changes from 20 and later</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Ootpa</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2019-05-07</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Originally Fedora 28, later CentOS Stream 8, which was also based on Fedora 28</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Plow</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">2022-05-17</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">CentOS Stream 9, itself based on Fedora 34</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_difference_between_red_hat_enterprise_linux_and_fedora"><a class="anchor" href="#_difference_between_red_hat_enterprise_linux_and_fedora"></a>Difference between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <table class="tableblock frame-all grid-all stretch"> <caption class="title">Table 2. Difference between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora</caption> <colgroup> <col style="width: 14.2857%;"> <col style="width: 42.8571%;"> <col style="width: 42.8572%;"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"></th> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</th> <th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Fedora</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">support</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported product by Red Hat and provides service level agreements that is important for enterprise customers. This support involves product assistance as well as prioritization of bug fixes, feature requests, certified hardware and software.</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Fedora is supported by a wide community of developers and users but it is not commercially supported by Red Hat. Red Hat does <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors">sponsor</a> the Fedora Project.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">releases</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">A new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes out every few years and is supported for up to 10 years.</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">New Fedora releases are available about every six months and every release gets updates for about 13 months.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">available software</p></td> <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Software in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a subset of that available in Fedora. 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