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by rafalG 5143 days ago
I don't understand how they got to 10 years?
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What about that do you not understand? They keep RHEL as up to day as most businesses care to have it, the only thing really connecting RHEL 1 and RHEL 6 is the name, and there isn't much reason for that to wear out..

Unless maybe you are talking about Redhat the company, not RHEL? This article is about 10 years of RHEL.. Redhat has been around for nearly two decades now.

Well RHEL started in 2003, since it's now 2012 that equals to only 9 years.
There was AS 2.1, then RHEL 3. But yes.
Ah yes, you are correct.
Red Hat distro was created in 1994, but in 2003 (~10 years ago) they created RHEL, merged vanilla Red Hat with Fedora, and shifted corporate strategy to RHEL.

Amusing they mark the start of the Fedora Project at the University of Hawaii, don't mention CentOS at all.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, I went to 2002 in the timeline and didn't see anything about Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Still it should be 9 years... or maybe 9.5 years.