Red Hat Linux (1995 - 2004)

for most of a decade red hat linux was what people meant when they said linux. it came in a cardboard box with printed manuals and a support number, and it gave the world rpm and anaconda, two pieces of plumbing that are still running today. version 9 shipped on 31 march 2003 and turned out to be the last one. red hat killed the free consumer product to concentrate on the paid enterprise line, the…