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Red Hat Linux is computer software. It is an operating system. It was the system of the company Red Hat which is had assembled. It discontinued later in the year 2004. The first version the Linux program was opened in the year 1994. This was the first package for RPM package manager, and then it was also used for other distributions like Yellow Dog Linux and Mandriva Linux.

Red Hat Linux was discontinued because it favored enterprise opportunities. Since then it is called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). They also have a free version which can be used at home by any one. It is developed by the company Fedora and is supported by Fedora community project.

The following are its features:

· The third version of the Linux was the first ever system which supported Executable and linkable format.

· Anaconda is their graphical installer. It is very easy for beginners and they can understand and learn a lot from it.

· Also, they have a built in tool called Lokkit which is used for configuration of firewall.

· The sixth version was also revolutionary. It had developed a software library for self configuration and discovery of Hardware. It was called Kudzu.

· Version 7 saw the development of GCCs. Better and upgraded GCCs helped in working with c++ in an easier way.

· Character encoding was the highlight of version 8. Although, English users didn’t feel much of an impact through this, it was very useful in multi lingual formats. It also helped in providing directions for working with European languages.

· Version 8 also had a special feature called the Blue curve Desktop theme.

· Native POSIX thread library was the focus point of Version 9.

Although, it brought about so many features and new technologies, it had some basic necessities lacking. It faced a lot or problems in the copyright and patent section. For instance in the RhythmBox and XMMS software, MP3 was disabled which was a major inconvenience. For this, Red Hat has advised its users to use Ogg Vorbis. It had unfortunately no patents though.