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Red Hat Linux is a Linux distribution, which was one of the most popular. It is assembled by Red Hat.

It is one of the "middle-aged" Linux distributions; 1.0 was released in November 3, 1994. It is not as old as Slackware, but certainly older than many other distributions. It was the first Linux distribution to use RPM as its packaging format, and over time has served as the starting point for several other distributions, such as the desktop-oriented Mandrake Linux (originally Red Hat Linux with KDE), Yellow Dog Linux (which started from Red Hat Linux with PowerPC support) and ASPLinux (Red Hat Linux with better non-Latin character support).

Since 2003, Red Hat has shifted their focus towards the business market and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on April 30, 2004, although the Fedora LegacyThe Fedora Legacy project is a community-supported open-source project to provide updates for versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core no longer officially supported by Red Hat. Currently, it has packages for Red Hat Linux 7. 3 and 9, and Fedora Core 1. project continues to publish updates.

1 Market

Red Hat Linux is marketed primarily as a server operating system. It is also popular among companies running computing farms and the like as the built-in installation scripting tool "kickstart" enables fast configuring and set up of standardized hardware. From version 8.0, Red Hat has also targeted the corporate desktop.

2 Special characteristics

Red Hat Linux is installed with a graphical installer called Anaconda, intended to be easy to use for novices. It also has a built-in tool called Lokkit for configuring the firewallFirewalls protect against the spread of fire or of other danger. Firewalls in construction In the traditional meaning in construction, a firewall consists of a windowless, fireproof wall (or a wall of substantially heavier construction than other walls in capabilities.

As of Red Hat Linux 8.0, UTF-8UTF-8 (8- bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a lossless, variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. It uses groups of bytes to represent the Unicode standard for the alphabets of many of the world's languages. was enabled as the default font encoding for the system. This has little effect on English-speaking users, but when using the upper part of the ISO 8859-1ISO 8859-1 more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1 is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. 1, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, character set, characters are encoded in a radically different way. This has been seen by e.g. FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to or SwedishSwedish svenska is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland finlandsvenska , Aland and in the coastland of Estonia estlandssvenska . Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic g-speaking users as an aggressive move, because their old filesystems look very different and might be unusable afterwards. This change can be undone by removing the ".UTF-8" part of the "LANG" setting.

Version 8.0 was also the first to include the BluecurveBluecurve is a desktop theme for GNOME and KDE created by the Red Hat Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a unified look throughout the Linux environment. It has been used in Red Hat Linux since version 8. 0, and Fedora Core. There ha desktop theme .

Red Hat Linux lacks many features due to possible copyright and patent problems. For example, MP3 support is disabled in both Rhythmbox and XMMS; instead, Red Hat recommends using Ogg Vorbis, which has no patents. MP3 support, however, can be installed afterwards, although royalties are required in the United States. NTFS support is also missing, but can be freely installed as well.

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