

Yes, RHEL 9 is the first production release built from CentOS Stream.Īs per the press release, the new version focuses on two different capabilities: If you’re already using CentOS Stream, you might have an idea about the RHEL 9 upgrade.

You will need to refer to Red Hat’s official documentation to know more about them. If you are a Linux desktop user and aren’t concerned about cloud innovation, you will find numerous technical jargon. But, now that it is officially announced, it should not take long. Note that the platform will be generally available in the coming weeks. Here, let me highlight the key additions to the release. There have been several updates to RHEL 8 over the years.įinally, Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 as the next-gen upgrade to power up enterprise IT infrastructure. So, it is safe to say that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was the last major release before the acquisition. If you didn’t know, IBM acquired it for $34 Billion in 2019. You can download a tarball and build from source, or use a 3rd-party repository such as the IUS Community Project to obtain a more recent version of git.Red Hat Enterprise Linux is undoubtedly a significant player in the open-source enterprise ecosystem. RHEL and derivatives typically ship older versions of git. Gentoo # emerge -ask -verbose dev-vcs/git Arch Linux # pacman -S git openSUSE # zypper install git Mageia # urpmi git Nix/NixOS # nix-env -i git FreeBSD # pkg install git Solaris 9/10/11 ( OpenCSW) # pkgutil -i git Solaris 11 Express # pkg install developer/versioning/git OpenBSD # pkg_add git Alpine $ apk add git Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux, et al.

If you prefer to build fromįor the latest stable version for your release of Debian/Ubuntu # apt-get install gitįor Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version # add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa # apt update apt install git Fedora # yum install git (up to Fedora 21) It is easiest to install Git on Linux using the preferred package
