Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released with a new logo
Last RHEL release before Red Hat joins IBM
red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the Linux distro aimed at businesses, has been released. The latest version, the last before Red Hat joins IBM after the latter bought it for a staggering $34 billion, has been “redesigned for the hybrid cloud era and built to support the workloads and operations that stretch from enterprise datacenters to multiple public clouds,” according to the press release (http://bit.ly/lxf251rhel8pr).
As part of this release, Red Hat Insights is being included as “Red Hat’s Linux expertise as-a-service,” which uses predictive analytics based on Red Hat’s knowledge of open source technology to help administrators identify and fix IT issues with the minimum of downtime. Red Hat Smart Management is also introduced in RHEL 8 as an add-on for the distro, which will make it easier for companies to use hybrid cloud computing in an easy-to-manage and patch interface. Find out more at http://bit.ly/ Lxf251redhatsmartmanagement.
Another new feature in RHEL8 is Application Streams, which enable developers to access ”fast-moving languages, frameworks and developer tools” without impacting the core
resources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – so developers can add new features in a secure and stable way with the minimum of disruption. There’s a huge amount of new features added with this major release, so we recommend you check out the release notes at http://bit.ly/ Lxf251rhel8releasenotes.
As well as releasing a major new version, Red Hat has changed its logo for the first time in 19 years. Gone is the ‘shadowy guy’ who wore the Red Hat, leaving just the headwear, which was the original symbol for the company. While many people may miss Shadowman, as he is affectionately known, some people thought of him as rather sinister, so he’s been dumped. The styling of the name has also been changed from ‘redhat’ to ‘Red Hat’.