Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta is the next generation enterprise operating system that provides a stable foundation for your hybrid cloud environment.

Highlights:

  • Rich set of new versions of applications that include databases, web servers, developer tools and infrastructure services delivering many new features and usability improvements.
  • Support for modern hardware platforms and devices based on an upstream 4.x kernel.
  • Standard set of tools to curate content and build lightweight installable images.
  • Standard management interface to configure basic services (network, storage, and compute) with the help of system roles based on Ansible technology.
  • Faster dependency resolution and a standard plug-in API for package management using YUM based on DNF technology.
  • Simplification of the structure of the content set by consolidating packages into two repositories – BaseOS and Application Stream.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 can be confidently deployed as a guest on supported hypervisors and Cloud provider environments. It can also just as easily be deployed on physical infrastructure, so your applications can take advantage of innovations in the leading hardware architecture platforms.

Where to go from here:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Product Page

    The landing page for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 information. Learn how to plan, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system.

  • Red Hat Customer Portal

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