Year Release Features
1994 Beta versions First Red Hat Linux product available to the
public in a series of beta versions.
1995 RHL 1.0 First non-beta release of Red Hat Linux.
1995 RHL 2.0 Written in Perl for quick development.
1996 RHL 3.0.3 The first approximately concurrent multi-architecture
release; supported the Digital Alpha platform.
1996 RHL 4.0 Based on the 2.0.18 kernel and the first release
to include documentation freely available in
electronic form.
1997 RHL 5.0 Named 1997 InfoWorld Product of the Year.
1999 RHL 6.0 Integrated GNOME desktop GUI.
2000 RHL 7.0 First release that supported Red Hat Network
out of the box.
2001 RHL 7.0.90 Introduced the 2.4 kernel.
2002 RHEL 2.1 AS Launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the first
(Advanced Server) commercial enterprise computing offering, based
on RHL 7.2.
2002 RHL 8.0 Designed to provide a unified look across RHL
and RHEL desktops.
2003 RHL 9 First release to include Native POSIX Thread
Library (NPTL) support.
2003 RHEL 3 The first Red Hat product made to run on 7-chip
architectures (by Intel, AMD, and IBM).