Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise platform well-suited for a broad range of applications across the IT infrastructure. The latest release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, represents a new standard for Red Hat by offering greater flexibility, efficiency, and control. It works across a broad range of hardware architectures, hypervisors, and clouds. Corporations and agencies that standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are free to focus on building their businesses, knowing they have a platform that delivers more of what they need.

Virtualization is a native feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, allowing your applications to have a consistent environment across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. All the work that you do to set up your applications – configuration, creating security policies, defining policy-driven resource allocation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing performance through system tuning and application diagnostics – is transportable across all of your deployments. And because Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself is independent of and portable across networks, hardware, and hypervisors – including Hyper-V and VMware - your operations are consistent and efficient wherever you choose to run them.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides support for your new and existing applications, the latest middleware products, modern cloud software architectures, and new runtime frameworks. But Red Hat provides much more than just a universal interface for applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a pervasive foundational environment for developing datacenter policies, procedures, and services. From identity management and governance, to a responsive, flexible, and complete Web applications stack, to effective management of scores of servers and massive storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux should be a critical part of your datacenter infrastructure.

Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6:

· Improved graphical installer;
· Support for new filesystems (EXT4, XFS, NFS, block discard);
· LVM enhancements;
· Better power management with powertop and tuned;
· Improved PackageKit and Yum package managers;
· Better support for clustering, with the Corosync Cluster Engine;
· Enhanced security;
· Network packet labeling and support for IPv6;
· Suspend and resume functionality;
· Support for multiple displays;
· Nouveau video driver for Nvidia graphics cards;
· Internationalization support;
· KDE SC 4.3;
· OpenOffice.org Office Suite 3.1;
· Mozilla Thunderbird 3;
· Mozilla Firefox 3.5;
· Apache 2.2.15;
· MySQL 5.1;
· PostgreSQL 8.4;
· Better documentation;
· Enhanced C++ support;
· Samba enhancements;
· Full support for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine);
· Alternative PHP Cache (APC) support for PHP;
· Added memcached.