Red
Hat领导着Linux的开发、部署和经营，从嵌入式设备到安全网页服务器，它都是用开源软件作为Internet基础设施解决方案的领头羊。Red
Hat由有远见的企业家Bob Young和Marc
Ewing创建于1994年，它以源码开发作为营业模型的基础。它也代表了软件开发行业的一次根本转变。软件的原始代码对所有人都可以获得，使用该软件的
开发人员可以自由地对其作改进。其结果是迅速的革新。Red Hat解决方案包括Red Hat
Linux、开发人员和嵌入式技术，以及培训、管理和技术支持。这份开源革新通过称之为Red Hat
Network的Internet平台传递给客户们。Red Hat的总部设在美国北卡罗莱纳州首府罗利。
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.9, the final maintenance release of the company's legacy 4.x product series. According to Red Hat's life cycle policy,
this release brings "production stage 2" to an end, with only selected
security advisories of critical impact and urgent bug fixes getting
released from now on. From the release announcement: "Red
Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4, release 4.9 (with kernel 2.6.9-100.EL) for a
family of products. This is the final minor release for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4. With this release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be
entering production 3 phase during which qualified security errata
advisories of critical impact, as well as, selected urgent priority
bug-fix errata may be released." See also the detailed release notes.
As always, existing Red Hat Linux subscribers can update to this
version through usual update channels, while new installation ISO images
can be obtained from Red Hat Networks.
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