
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is here
The newest major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces the next era of the operating system (OS), with AI readiness and advanced capabilities to help you address the Linux skills gap, contain drift with container technologies, get started with post-quantum security, and more.


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is here
The newest major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces the next era of the operating system (OS), with AI readiness and advanced capabilities to help you address the Linux skills gap, contain drift with container technologies, get started with post-quantum security, and more.
The stable foundation for untold innovation
Discover three impactful new features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, designed to streamline your operations and boost efficiency. Video duration: 2:39
The world's leading enterprise Linux platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform (according to Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems Market Shares, 2018; released November 2019), certified on hundreds of clouds and with thousands of hardware and software vendors.
Features and benefits
Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be purchased to support specific use cases like edge computing or SAP workloads, but every subscription includes these core benefits:
Subscription benefits
Your subscription lets you access all supported versions—including the latest release—and our extensive partner ecosystem. Upgrade on your schedule with our 10-year life cycle, all with 24x7 support.
Supported architectures
Deep collaboration with upstream communities and hardware partners helps Red Hat Enterprise Linux run on servers or high-performance workstations. It supports a range of hardware architectures like x86, ARM, IBM Power, IBM Z, and IBM LinuxONE.
Get a consistent and stable administrative experience, allowing admins to spend more time on innovation—less time on repetitive, error-prone tasks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes Red Hat Insights, a managed service for analytics and remediation that delivers continuous vulnerability alerts and targeted guidance to help organizations maximize uptime and avoid emergencies. Plus, with the Red Hat Satellite add-on you can automate the remediation process.
From your first steps installing, migrating, or upgrading Red Hat Enterprise Linux to eventually deploying across multiple clouds, we provide utilities to help. Our migration tools make it easy to get started if you’re coming from CentOS Linux or another distro, and you can create optimized operating system images with Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder that can handle the details of cloud deployments when you’re ready.
Simplify how your organization mitigates risk, automates security, and maintains compliance. Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes built-in security features like live kernel patching, security profiles, security standards certification, and a trusted software supply chain to help meet today’s high security and compliance expectations.
No matter what hardware or workloads you are running, our comprehensive performance monitoring, tracing, and analysis tools help you optimize your systems. Detect performance anomalies, build a comprehensive view of system performance, and apply best-practices through preset tuning profiles so you can get the most out of your investments.



Red Hat Enterprise Linux news from Red Hat Summit
A direct migration path for CentOS Linux 7 users
CentOS Linux 7 reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.
Systems still using it will no longer receive patches, security updates, or new features from the CentOS community. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a fully supported production-grade operating system (OS) available on premises and in the cloud–and it’s a direct migration path for CentOS Linux users.
Whether you’re using only CentOS Linux or are an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer, and also have CentOS Linux, we have a streamlined migration solution for your needs.
Salesforce transitions from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
The company is migrating over 200,000 systems to streamline IT operations and enhance customer experiences.
The ideal OS on the cloud
Position your organization for success with a flexible, optimized OS built to respond to rapid change. Red Hat Enterprise Linux works seamlessly with leading cloud providers to deliver superior security, workload migration, and tools for management and visibility—giving you a clear path from development to production.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure
Offers Azure customers data security and interoperability for on-premise and cloud-based applications, driving ROI and providing significant operational benefits.
Use cases for any cloud, any workload
Expand to the edge
Red Hat Enterprise Linux extends your hybrid cloud infrastructure to the edge, scaled across hundreds—or even hundreds of thousands—of nodes all over the world. Create edge-optimized OS images, minimize workload interruptions caused by OS updates, transfer system updates more efficiently, and have confidence in automatic health checks and rollbacks.
Learn how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help you solve the challenges at the edge. Duration: 2:36
Hybrid cloud starts with Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables you to deploy and run applications anywhere—from physical and virtual, to private and public clouds—by delivering the consistent operating foundation needed for modern IT and enterprise hybrid cloud deployments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cloud Experience Overview. Duration: 1:56
Migrate SAP workloads
Organizations that depend on SAP to manage their business need an operating system that delivers performance, reliability, and the ability to modernize and integrate their SAP and non-SAP applications. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions, organizations can meet these needs and comply with the quickly approaching SAP requirement to migrate their applications to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA by the 2027 deadline.
Deliver SQL Server on Linux
Searching for a performance-driven, cost-effective platform for Microsoft SQL Server? Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a scalable foundation and a consistent application experience across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, and hybrid cloud environments.
Developing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Join the Red Hat Developer program for access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, how-to videos, demos, documentation, and a vast ecosystem to help you build and deploy apps in the cloud. Our Universal Base Image (UBI) provides a stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux userspace as you expand into container development projects.
Scale your HPC workloads with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Your OS plays a key role in how well your high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure performs, connecting your hardware, software, networking, and interfaces to form a unified environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a flexible, reliable platform for running HPC workloads at scale.
Build on a reliable foundation
Enterprises around the world trust our broad portfolio of hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native application development, and automation solutions to deliver IT services on any infrastructure quickly and cost effectively.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Support application deployments—from on premise to the cloud to the edge—in a flexible operating environment.
Red Hat OpenShift
Quickly build and deploy applications at scale, while you modernize the ones you already have.
Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform
Automation Platform
Create, manage, and dynamically scale automation across your entire enterprise.
Red Hat AI
Tune small models with enterprise-relevant data, and develop and deploy AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments.
How our customers use Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UPS created a container-based application platform that enables developers to more efficiently create new features for operations logistics and staffing.
Lufthansa Technik used hybrid cloud infrastructure to build a digital platform that uses data to better organize and schedule airline maintenance.
Tomago Aluminium improved development efficiency, consolidated its server footprint, and enhanced system and data security by migrating its SAP solution.
If you're looking for Linux, I don't think that there's a better supported solution than RHEL.
Training and certification
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Featured news
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is here
The newest major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces the next era of the operating system (OS). Experience how AI readiness and advanced capabilities can help you address the Linux skills gap, contain drift with container technologies, get started with post-quantum security, and more. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 is also now available.
Cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings now available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
Now available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, our cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings provide jointly-engineered, integrated, and supported images across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. These offerings are tailored to specific hyperscaler environments, providing users with pre-tuned, ready-to-run images to more seamlessly build, deploy, and manage workloads in the cloud.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 End of Maintenance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 reached end of maintenance on June 30, 2024. If you’re a current customer, upgrade now to supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or 9 for new features, security enhancements and more. If you’re not ready to upgrade yet, you can purchase Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, which covers maintenance support and critical security and bug fixes through June 30, 2028.
From the newsroom
* Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems Market Shares, 2018; released November 2019