The manual also suggested that most users would not use the rpp program to install software instead, they would use the Tcl/Tk LIM (Linux Installation Manager) graphical front end. The manual still referred in at least one place to the 1.1.18 kernel shipped just a few months previously. Users had their choice of the 1.0.9 (stable) or 1.1.54 (development) Linux kernel. It was still a purchased beta, but at least now it came with documentation. Reports of a version number for this product appear to be exaggerated.įirst widely-available beta release of Red Hat Linux. It used a 1.1.18 development series kernel. The letter accompanying it thanked the recipient for purchasing the beta version and was signed by Marc Ewing (Red Hat's founder) and Damien Neil (Red Hat's first employee, a summer intern).
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This was called "Red Hat Software Linux" and abbreviated "RHS Linux" in the manuals and other accompanying documentation, and was provided on a single CD with an unmarked solid red label. Initial test release, not distributed widely or publicly, built on Red Hat's original package management system, RPP. In the following table, the Version number is prefaced by "RHL" for Red Hat Linux, "RHEL" for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and "FC" for Fedora Core.
It is intended to give some sense of where we have been, to help build a shared understanding of what we did right, as well as what we have done wrong, in order to continue a tradition of excellence. We hope to do more research into our own past to give more useful data. For the first decade or so, we did not set out to write the history of Red Hat Linux, so some of this data is a bit fuzzy or conflicting. We go ahead and do things, and afterward, people go and start making history out of it.” - Fred Weick, Aircraft Designer. This document describes that history, particularly focusing on the development themes for each release of Linux provided by Red Hat.
There has been over a decade of Linux development at Red Hat.