Red Hat Linux was a Linux distribution created by Red Hat, a company founded by Bob Young and Marc Ewing. Its first public releases appeared in 1995, and it became one of the most popular distributions among both hobbyists and businesses. It introduced the RPM package format, which was adopted by many other distributions. Red Hat went public in 1999 in one of the most spectacular stock market debuts of the dot-com era. After version 9 in 2003, Red Hat stopped the consumer product and focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for business users, while a community-supported project called Fedora took over the experimental role. IBM acquired Red Hat in 2019 for about 34 billion dollars.
Before and after
- 1995Founding of European Medicines Agency
- 1995Launch of JSTOR
- 1995Creation of Ruby
- 1995Dogme 95
- 1995Creation of Red Hat Linux
- 1995Founding of European Ombudsman
- 1995Creation of Java
- 1995Actor Awards
- 1995Discovery of Little Foot
More in Science & technology
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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