Miracle Linux

MIRACLE LINUX

Developer	Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Current
Latest release	8.0 / 2020
Package manager	RPM
Platforms	IA-32, IA-64
License	GPL and others
Official website	[1]

MIRACLE LINUX is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based commercial Linux distribution in Japan, developed and supported by Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.

Overview

MIRACLE LINUX Corporation, later merged with Cybertrust Japan in 2017, was established in June 2000 by Oracle Corporation Japan and Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. Originally developed and marketed a Linux distribution for enterprises market that optimized for Oracle Database application.

In December 2003, Miracle Linux (Japan) and Red Flag (China) started a multibyte language-supported Linux distribution project named “Asianux”. Since then MIRACLE LINUX had been developed in the Asianux project for more than 10 years. After The Asianux project was disbanded in September 2015, MIRACLE LINUX had been developed in Japan by Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.  "Asianux" remains part of the MIRACLE LINUX product name.

MIRACLE LINUX is widely used in industrial equipment where long-term supported OS is required. According to a survey by Mick Economic Research Institute in October 2020, MIRACLE LINUX has a 57% market share of the pre-installed Linux distribution of industrial PCs.

Release history

Date	Name	Code Name	kernel version	Base OS
2000-09-29	Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version1.0	N/A	2.2.16-3	TurboLinux Server JP 6.1
2001-05-25	Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version2.0	Styrax	2.4.2-2	Red Hat Linux 7.1
2002-07-29	MIRACLE LINUX Standard Edition V2.1		2.4.9-31.22ml	RHEL 2.1 Update 2
2004-06-11	MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside	Koumei	2.4.21-9.30AX	RHEL 3
2005-03-17	MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP1		2.4.21-20.19AX	RHEL 3 Update 3
2006-02-24	MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP2		2.4.21-37.18AX	RHEL 3 Update 6
2006-12-12	MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP3		2.4.21-47.22AX	RHEL 3 Update 8
2007-09-18	MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside	Trinity	2.6.9-11.19AX	RHEL4 Update 1
2006-07-12	MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP1		2.6.9-34.21AX	RHEL4 Update 3
2007-03-02	MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP2		2.6.9-42.7AX	RHEL4 Update 4
2009-01-30	MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP3		2.6.9-78.8AXS2	RHEL4 Update 7
2010-01-20	MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP4		2.6.9-89.5AXS2	RHEL4 Update 8
2007-09-18	Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5	Quartet	2.6.18-8.10AX	RHEL5.0
2008-10-07	Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP1		2.6.18-53.11AX	RHEL5.1
2009-09-07	Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP2		2.6.18-128.7AXS3	RHEL5.3
2010-07-06	Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP3		2.6.18-194.1.AXS3	RHEL5.5
2011-09-02	Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP4		2.6.18-238.2.AXS3	RHEL5.6
2012-01-17	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP1	Hiranya	2.6.32-131.12.1.el6	RHEL6.1
2012-12-13	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP2		2.6.32-279.2.1.el6	RHEL6.3
2014-01-30	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP3		2.6.32-358.14.1.el6	RHEL6.4
2014-10-02	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP4		2.6.32-431.20.3.el6	RHEL6.5
2015-09-16	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP5		2.6.32-696.1.1.el6	RHEL6.7
2016-07-21	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP6		2.6.32-642.el6	RHEL6.8
2017-05-26	Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP7		2.6.32-696.1.1.el6	RHEL6.9
2015-10-27	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7	Lotus	3.10.0-229.4.2.el7	RHEL7.1
2016-02-18	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP1		3.10.0-327.3.1.el7	RHEL7.2
2017-10-24	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP2		3.10.0-693.2.2.el7	RHEL7.4
2019-03-07	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP3		3.10.0-957.1.3.el7	RHEL7.6
2020-08-04	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP4		3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7	RHEL7.8
2021-04-26	Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP5		3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7	RHEL7.9
2020-03-19	MIRACLE LINUX 8 Asianux Inside	Peony	4.18.0-147.5.1.el8	RHEL8.1

See also

• Asianux

External links

• Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.
• MIRACLE LINUX (Japanese only)
• Miracle Linux at DistroWatch