CentralNotice Red Hat Enterprise Linux From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Rhel ) Jump to: navigation , search Not to be confused with Fedora Linux or Red Hat Linux . Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7's default GNOME 3 desktop Company / developer Red Hat , Inc. OS family Unix-like Working state Current Source model Free and open source software (with exceptions) [ 1 ] Initial release February 22, 2000 ; 14 years ago ( 2000-02-22 ) [ 2 ] Latest release 7.0, 6.5, 5.10 / June 10, 2014 ; 2 months ago ( 2014-06-10 ) , November 21, 2013 ; 8 months ago ( 2013-11-21 ) , September 30, 2013 ; 10 months ago ( 2013-09-30 ) Marketing target Commercial market (including for mainframes , servers , supercomputers ) Available in Multilingual Update method Yum / PackageKit Package manager RPM Platforms...