List of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Derivatives
The following are listed by DistroWatch as being among the top 100 most popular distros for the past 12 months (as of December 2010):
- CentOS
- ClearOS
- Oracle Linux - Requests registration, with personal information (name, email, company) and agreements, but does not require payment to download or deploy. Payment is required for support.
- Scientific Linux
- Yellow Dog Linux
Other less well-known distros:
- CAOS Linux (multiple lineage)
- Fermi Linux, a.k.a. Fermi Scientific Linux, derived from Scientific Linux
- GENtOS Linux
- StartCom Enterprise Linux
- PUIAS Linux
- Rocks Cluster Distribution - derived from RHEL (earlier versions) and CentOS (recent releases)
- Bull's XBAS or bullx (for high-performance computing)
- Ascendos
- Google Search Appliance - derived from CentOS
The following derivatives have ceased production:
- Pie Box Enterprise Linux, no longer operating as of 2009-08-01
- Lineox
- TaoLinux - 4.0 i386 Final Release available on 2005-04-20; 3.0 Update 4 available on 2005-01-10, Ceased production on 2006-06-14. The web site includes instructions for updating to CentOS for continued updates
- X/OS Linux - Ceased production in 2008. The web site includes instructions for updating to CentOS for continued updates.
- White Box Enterprise Linux - No formal announcement but no longer actively developed
The following appliance-oriented derivatives are also based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- VMWare ESX's Service Console software
- Amazon.com Amazon Linux AMI RHEL5/RHEL6 userland with a linux-xen-kernel
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