Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a premier, open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, Inc., offering a robust and secure foundation for diverse computing environments. It provides flexibility and stability for deploying critical workloads across physical, virtual, cloud, and edge platforms.

RHEL on Azure Virtual Machines enhances performance, strengthens security, and improves container support. Updated development tools make it ideal for enterprise automation, cloud-native applications, containers, middleware, storage, virtualization, and IT management.

By combining enterprise-grade reliability with open-source innovation, RHEL enables organizations to build and scale confidently on Azure.

RHEL 8.8 Key Features

Security & Performance

• Greater consistency and stronger security posture
• Network-bound disk encryption for root filesystem

Web Console Enhancements

• Dark visual theme
• Improved user and group management

User Experience

• New on-screen keyboard
• Improved GNOME Software utility
• Enhancements to GNOME Terminal and dconf-editor

Device & Application Support

• Thunderbolt™ 3 interface integration
• New features in GNOME Boxes

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