Red Hat Enterprise linux, often shorted to RHEL, is the open source company’s Linux distribution that is aimed at the enterprise market.
Initially released in 2000, under the name Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, it is based on free, open source code which has been made available for download. However, direct copying of the code is not allowed.
In addition to supporting workloads in virtualised and physical environments, the RHEL operating system also supports those in cloud.
RHEL is released in server versions for X86, X86-64, IBM Systems z, and more. It is also available for mainframes, SAP applications, OpenStack, and desktops.
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