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When enterprise-sized IT departments wanted to switch away from cumbersome, expensive commercial Unix systems, RHEL was there to step in. As a result, it became
by bityard 3y ago
When enterprise-sized IT departments wanted to switch away from cumbersome, expensive commercial Unix systems, RHEL was there to step in. As a result, it became the default enterprise Linux distribution and vendor.
The reason why it is still special is because even in 2023, if any commercial enterprise applications and hardware support Linux at all, it is generally only RHEL.