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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Capabilities and benefits

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a flexible and stable foundation to support hybrid cloud innovation. Deploy applications and critical workloads faster with a consistent experience across physical, virtual, private and public cloud, and edge deployments.

Accelerate innovation

Further innovation and modernization on a platform built for hybrid cloud development and operations teams.

Establish a consistent security foundation

Build a stable, consistent, and trustworthy platform that sets the foundation for a strong security posture on which to scale applications and roll out emerging technologies across the hybrid cloud.

Streamline IT infrastructure

Increase efficiency and streamline management at scale with a consistent and repeatable platform for all deployments, whether on-premise, virtualized, in the cloud, or at the edge.

Operate with complete confidence

Use a reliable, cloud-ready platform with a long life cycle, an extensive software and hardware partner ecosystem, integrated tools for development, management and security, and 24x7 support to support faster and more successful innovation across the hybrid cloud.

To perform a standard x86_64 installation using the GUI, you'll need to:

Check system requirements

Your physical or virtual machine should meet the system requirements.

Download an installation ISO image

Download the binary DVD ISO.

Create a bootable installation media

Create a bootable installation media, for example a USB flash drive.

Install and register your system

Boot the installation, register your system, attach RHEL subscriptions, and install RHEL from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN) using the GUI.

Instructions

  1. 1

    Boot the installation from the bootable media and from the boot menu select "Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x."

  2. 2

    Perform a quick install from the Installation Summary window by registering your system, attaching RHEL subscriptions, and installing RHEL from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN).

  3. 3

    Set a root password and create a user account.

  4. 4

    When the installation process is complete, click Reboot to restart the system.


    Take a break.

    Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can take 30-45 minutes. 
  5. 5

    You can also register your system:

    • After installation using the command line.

    • After installation using the Subscription Manager user interface.

    • After installation using Registration Assistant.

    See the Additional Resources section of Completing post-installation tasks for more information about the registration methods.

  1. 1

    Boot the installation from the bootable media and from the boot menu select "Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x."

  2. 2

    Perform a quick install from the Installation Summary window by registering your system, attaching RHEL subscriptions, and installing RHEL from the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN).

  3. 3

    Set a root password and create a user account.

  4. 4

    When the installation process is complete, click Reboot to restart the system.

    Take a break.

    Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can take 30-45 minutes. 
  5. 5

    From the Initial Setup window, accept the licensing agreement.

  6. 6

    You can also register your system:

    • During installation using Initial Setup.

    • After installation using the command line.

    • After installation using the Subscription Manager user interface.

    • After installation using Registration Assistant.

    See the Additional Resources section of Completing post-installation tasks for more information about the registration methods.


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What's new in RHEL

Features in latest RHEL release

The latest additions to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux  platform help organizations recognize more value from Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is now available. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 platform is our newest enterprise operating system designed to meet the needs of the hybrid cloud environment.

Upgrading RHEL

Upgrading to RHEL 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 provides a flexible and stable foundation to support hybrid cloud innovation. It offers seamless and simplified provisioning and transparent upgrade path (with built-in management capabilities) making it painless to keep the software stack up to date in distributed environments.

Upgrading to RHEL 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 delivers the latest innovations to develop, deploy, and manage applications across the open hybrid cloud. Our new in-place upgrade tool makes it easier than ever before to take advantage of these advances in ease of use, management, containers, and more.

Optimize with Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Introduction to Red Hat Insights

Red Hat Insights for RHEL provides operational efficiency and vulnerability risk management to help you operate RHEL environments smoothly. Red Hat Insights is included with your RHEL subscription (version 6.4 and higher) at no additional cost.

RHEL 8 for SAP Solutions

Developing Applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Developer

RHEL 9 provides developers with a simplified experience for both access and application development.  It ships with GCC 11 and the latest versions of LLVM, Rust and Go compilers, empowering developers to continually modernize their applications. Python 3.9 is included in RHEL 9 bringing a faster release schedule, performance boosts, dictionary union operators, and more consistent and stable internal APIs.

Red Hat Application Streams for RHEL

Red Hat Application Streams

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9,  Application Streams are used to provide multiple versions of components giving the user the option of using newer versions or the long life version delivered with the operating system.  In RHEL 8 and 9, most Application Streams are packaged as modules (modules can be thought of as package groups that represent an application, a set of tools, or runtime languages).  Different Application Streams represent different versions of software, so you can choose the option that best suits your needs. Most modules also have an installation profile, which helps to define a specific use case, and determines which packages are installed on the system.

Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL 7

Red Hat Software Collections offering for RHEL 7

Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) provides a set of dynamic programming languages, database servers, and related packages, as well as additional developer tools, that you can install and use on all supported releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures, IBM Z, and IBM POWER, little endian.

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