RedHat: History of releases

RedHat is the most known and biggest company in the world whose business is entirely based on Linux. It's the first distribution maker that has quoted its shares at Nasdaq and one of the not so many companies that has built a successful Linux business model.
Originally founded by Marc Ewing, it was purchased in 1995 by Bob Young's ACC Bookstores. During the following years, version after version, it has gained a reputation of distro good for servers (even if by far not the best one, according to purists) with easy installation and configuration tools.

The first public release of Red Hat Linux (version 1.0) is dated 1994, after the older historic distro as Slackware, but still largely before the big Linux boost of the following years.

Chronology of Red Hat releases
RedHat 1.0 (Mother's Day), November 3, 1994
RedHat 1.1 (Mother's Day+0.1), August 1, 1995
RedHat 2.0, September 20, 1995
RedHat 2.1, November 23, 1995
RedHat 3.0.3 (Picasso), May 1, 1996
RedHat 4.0 (Colgate), October 8, 1996
RedHat 4.1 (Vanderbilt), February 3, 1997
RedHat 4.2 (Biltmore), May 19, 1997
RedHat 5.0 (Hurricane), December 1, 1997
RedHat 5.1 (Manhattan), May 22, 1998
RedHat 5.2 (Apollo), November 2, 1998
RedHat 6.0 (Hedwig), April 26, 1999
RedHat 6.1 (Cartman), October 4, 1999
RedHat 6.2 (Zoot), April 3, 2000
RedHat 7 (Guinness), September 25, 2000
RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), April 16, 2001
RedHat 7.2 (Enigma), October 22, 2001
RedHat 7.3 (Valhalla), May 6, 2002
RedHat Enterprise Edition 2.1 AS (Pensacola), May 6 2002
RedHat 8.0 (Psyche), September 30, 2002
RedHat 9 (Shrike), March 31, 2003

The Fedora and Red Hat Projects merged September 22, 2003 when RedHat made the discussed choice to split its product line in 2 main branches: the free and open Fedora and the commercial, enterprise-ready, Red Hat Enterprise Edition.
RedHat Enterprise Edition 3.0 (Taroon), October 22 2003
Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow), was published November 2003
Fedora Core 1.90 (FC2 Test 1), February 4, 2004
Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang), May 11, 2004

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