Open "Red Hat?

Tonyrush · Aug 14, 2009

I am just starting trying to learn Linux. The textbook says it covers Red Hat. Is this Open software? :confused Thanks.

BoredOutOfMyMind · Aug 15, 2009

Tonyrush said: ↑

I am just starting trying to learn Linux. The textbook says it covers Red Hat. Is this Open software? :confused Thanks.
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Tonyrush, welcome to MG.

Redhat evolved into what is now called Fedora.

Wikipedia said:

Over and above Red Hat's major products and acquisitions, Red Hat programmers have produced software programming tools and utilities to supplement standard Unix and Linux software. Some of these Red Hat "products" have found their way from specifically Red Hat operating environments via open-source channels to a wider community. Such utilities include:

* Disk Druid (for disk partitioning)
* rpm (for package management)
* sos (for gathering information on system hardware and configuration)
* sysreport (gathers system hardware and configuration details)
* systemtap (tracing tool for linux kernel)

The Red Hat web site has a list of their major involvements in free and open source software projects.
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pclover · Sep 10, 2009

There is also CentOS which is built on RHEL.

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