Red Hat Releases Updated Red Hat Linux Operating Systems for IBM's eServer Platforms.Business Editors, High Tech Writers RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2002 Expanded hardware and language capabilities are featured in these upgrades for IBM's eServer line of enterprise servers Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), the world's premier open source and Linux provider, today announced the availability of new releases of Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. for IBM's iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries enterprise server platforms. The new releases, Red Hat Linux 7.1 for iSeries (64 bit) and Red Hat Linux 7.1 for pSeries (64 bit), now include extended support for 32-bit applications running within a 64-bit native environment. Red Hat Linux 7.1 for zSeries continues support for both 64-bit and 31-bit applications. Additional hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. have been added to those models supported by Red Hat Linux: -- Red Hat Linux 7.1 for iSeries (64 bit) includes support for iSeries Models 270, 820, 830, 840, and 890 -- Red Hat Linux 7.1 for pSeries (64 bit) includes support for pSeries Models p620, p640 and p660 -- Red Hat Linux 7.1 for zSeries includes support for zSeries models z900 and z800 Red Hat Linux for all eServer platforms now support English, German and Japanese languages Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. natively. All Red Hat Linux for eServer products are offered in either a Standard 12x5 with 1 business day response, and Premier 24x7 with 2 hour response. Red Hat is currently taking orders for these new releases of Red Hat Linux for IBM's iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries enterprise server platforms. Orders taken in December will be fulfilled ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. by mid-January. Please call 866-2-REDHAT extension 45052 or visit http://www.redhat.com for more information or to place an order. About Red Hat Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Its European headquarters is based in Surrey Surrey, county (1991 pop. 997,000), 653 sq mi (1,691 sq km), SE England. The county seat is Guildford. The North Downs cross the county from east to west. To the north the land slopes gently downward to the Thames, into which flow the Wey and the Mole, Surrey's , UK, with offices throughout Europe. 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