Building on the successful launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat has introduced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1. According to a new blog post by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team, the beta “delivers a number of enhancements and improvements to the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, with an emphasis on ease-of-use, improved manageability, security, and performance.”
Additionally, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux team notes, “for customers who are using the IBM Power Systems platform as part of their data center infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 beta now includes support for POWER8 on IBM Power Systems (based on little endian). Running in little endian mode accelerates innovation on the Power platform by removing an application portability barrier and allowing customers utilizing IBM Power Systems to leverage the existing ecosystem of Linux applications as developed for the x86 architecture.”
To access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team blog, go here.
Ptak Associates also weighs in on the news in a blog here.