Bookmark this page

Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • Open source software is software with source code that anyone can freely use, study, modify, and share.

  • A Linux distribution is an installable operating system constructed from a Linux kernel and supporting user programs and libraries.

  • Red Hat participates in supporting and contributing code to open source projects, sponsors and integrates project software into community-driven distributions, and stabilizes the software to offer it as supported enterprise-ready products.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux is Red Hat's open source, enterprise-ready, commercially-supported Linux distribution.

Revision: rh124-8.2-df5a585