Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 16, 2026 10:34 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Version 7 Linux by devnull13
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window

It wasn't Red Hat 1-9, it was "Red Hat Linux" (RHL). And RHL wasn't renamed to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". RHEL started out as "Red Hat Advanced Server", and via few more rebrandings to "Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition", as a more stable fork of RHL. E.g,, RHEE 6.2 was based off RHL 6.2 / 7, RHEL 2.1 from RHL 7.2.

RHL became Fedora Core Linux, not RHEL.