Presented by:

JUENA GOGOI(BAM-17001)
WINKY HAZARIKA(BAM-17016)
TASNIM AKHTAR(BAM-17032)
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF : NRIPANKAR KALITA(BAM-17021)
DR. HEERA BARPUJARY SAURAV G. KATAKI(BAM-17015)
ANURAG CHANDA(BAM-17038)
 PLAN OF TALK
INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY
FEATURES
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES
MERITS
DEMERITS
CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a product of US Company called Red
Hat Inc.

Red Hat first published the software on November 3,1994.

In 2003, Red Hat discontinued the Red Hat discontinued the

Red Hat Linux in favour of Red Hat Enterprise Linus ( RHEL) for
enterprise environment.

Fedora, developed by community, supported Fedora Project &

sponsored by Red Hat is free of cost alternative intended for
home use.
Red Hat Linux 9, the final release , hit its official end of life on
April 30,2004.
 FEATURES
Red hat enterprise linux has reduced power
consumption and tanning greater hardware and
memory resources.
Best operating system for data centre needs .
Advances in system efficiency led to higher
performance of the system.
Supports more sockets ,more cores , more
threads and more memory.
Always preferred to run industry benchmarks .
 Works well with variety of operating system
including unix , microsoft window server.
Can be deployed as a guest operating system
across public clouds and supports hypervisors.
Real time auditing and monitoring is possible.
Latest IPv6 is supported.
Since red hat linux is not a closed source os users
can enhance the OS.
COMPARISON OF RED HAT LINUX OVER
UBUNTU(LINUX KERNEL)
The license terms - Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
commercial.

Main Difference is Ubuntu is based on Debian system.

It uses .deb packages. While redhat uses it own
package system .rpm (red hat package manager ).

Redhat is free but it is charged for support (updates),

when Ubuntu is totally free with support for desktop
users only professional support is chargeable.
Military-grade security
network firewall control to secure containers for application
isolation to prevent intrusions and protect your data.
99.999% uptime
With the help of advanced hardware reliability, availability, and
serviceability (RAS) features.
Record-setting performance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is ready to run your toughest workloads
immediately after installation.
ADVANTAGES OF RED HAT LINUX

Open Source with User Support

Software Compatibility Issues Solved
If you need Linux for business, Red Hat is a
formidable OS solution.
Networks
Red Hat, as a company, have developed a wide
range of partners in a plethora of business
markets, to make using the system as a whole
easier.
 DRAWBACKS OF RED HAT LINUX
Hardware manufacturers dont see Red Hat Linux as a
market share and hence the availability of hardware that
runs on Red Hat Linux is very rare.
Lack of Familiarity-This is a big issue for people who are
Windows users and have trouble with change.
Lack of specific name-brand software- No Adobe CC,
games, many commercial software packages that
companies depend on are Windows-only or Windows/OS
X only.
Lack of pre-installed Linux with support from the
hardware vendor :- Dell is the only major hardware
vendor that is currently shipping desktop/laptop systems
with Linux pre-installed.
 SUMMARY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux products have been
specifically designed for deployment in mission
critical, enterprise environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions enable Linux to be
successfully deployed across the corporate IT
infrastructure.
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux products, customers
will benefit from the most advanced Reliability,
Availability, Scalability and Manageability capabilities
ever provided in a Linux solution.