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Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology is derived from the Fedora Project. Fedora is a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It provides a public development platform and proving ground for new open source technologies. Fedora features that are proven mature and stable are incorporated into commercial Red Hat products.
Fedora Core releases are issued about 2-3 times a year and are available from Red Hat servers and more than 200 mirror sites worldwide. However, the leading-edge, rapidly changing nature of Fedora makes it impractical for use in commercial environments, and it is not formally supported by Red Hat or its ISV/OEM partners.
New versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are released approximately every 18 months, after a rigorous development and testing period. Each release is supported with updates and security enhancements for seven years, during which time Red Hat maintains the highest possible levels of stability and consistency. This ensures that applications continue to run without the need for rebuilding or recertification. It is the stable environment offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux that makes it the preferred platform for ISV and OEM product certifications, and therefore ideally suited for commercial deployments.