Red Hat领导着Linux的开发、部署和经营，从嵌入式设备到安全网页服务器，它都是用开源软件作为Internet基础设施解决方案的领头羊。Red Hat由有远见的企业家Bob Young和Marc Ewing创建于1994年，它以源码开发作为营业模型的基础。它也代表了软件开发行业的一次根本转变。软件的原始代码对所有人都可以获得，使用该软件的 开发人员可以自由地对其作改进。其结果是迅速的革新。Red Hat解决方案包括Red Hat Linux、开发人员和嵌入式技术，以及培训、管理和技术支持。这份开源革新通过称之为Red Hat Network的Internet平台传递给客户们。Red Hat的总部设在美国北卡罗莱纳州首府罗利。

Red Hat, Inc. has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.8, the latest update of the company’s legacy series of enterprise-class operating systems: “Today we released the eighth update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, marking the next step in the product’s seven-year lifecycle. RHEL 4, first shipped in February 2005, is now in the Production 2 life cycle phase. With this, the focus of product updates in the future will shift away from providing significant code changes and focus on providing critical fixes and helping customers evolve their IT plans for eventual migration to RHEL 5. Key features in RHEL 4.8 include: improved virtualization performance and scale; Improved Windows interoperability and file system support; general performance improvements; storage and file system enhancements….” Read the rest of the press release for further details. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 is available to existing Red Hat customers via the usual update mechanisms or as a set of ISO images from Red Hat Networks.