Red Hat puts Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat has the final released of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. RHEL 7 by default, supports up to 500TB scalable xfs file system. Also, there is virtualization via containers is possible and there is support for 40Gbit/s ethernet.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 runs on Linux kernel 3.10 and contains compared to RHEL 6 enhancements that were previously in Fedora 18, 19 and 20 were found. Thanks to support for xfs as the default file system is now storage volumes of up to 500TB. In previous versions was the border still at 100TB.

RHEL also promises ethernethardware with speeds of up to 40Gbit/s to support. Also, there are improvements in the ip-protocols: the implementation of the tcp extension Fast Open promises less latency along with algorithms as tail loss probe, early retransmit, and proportional rate reduction.

Becoming more and more important in the Linux-serverwereld and cloud computing is the use of containers. RHEL 7 doesn’t want to respond to them with support for a variety of Linux containers, including the rapidly evolving Docker. Red Hat also promises that its operating system to better communicate with Active Directory from Microsoft.

On the desktop is now Gnome 3 as area to be selected, while there is also a classic mode of Gnome with the look-and-feel of Gnome 2. Also KDE 4 as a desktop environment available on RHEL 7.

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