Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1
Released – A Quick Review and Installation
Instructions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux commonly but not officially abbreviated as RHEL is a Linux
distribution developed from commercial point of view. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides their
source code for free but keep check on free re-distribution of their officially supported version of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. All the third party derivatives and community supported distributions
be it CentOS, Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux build and redistribute their distribution by
removing non-free components and Trade mark of Red Hat.
Red Hat releases its distribution under various editions viz., Server, Desktop, Academic, Entry-
level server (ES), Advanced Server (AS), Work Station (WS), etc. Since the product is
commercial-centric it is free as in speech but not free as in beer.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, codename “Maipo” was released on June 10, 2014. It is based on
Fedora core 19, upstream Linux Kernel 3.10, Gnome 3.8 and Systemd 108. The life cycle of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux is 10 years.
The first point update of latest stable release was released on march 06, 2015. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.1 has enhanced interoperability, improved development and deployment
tools as well as security and performance of next level, stability, Red Hat Support, functionality
improvement for Active directory environment and access to Microsoft windows file and print
server adds to the list.
Features of RHEL 7.1
The world’s leading enterprise operating system gets several improvement and enhancement.
Here is the list of most important improvements that is useful for industry use case:
1. Available for architectures x86_64 AMD, x86_64 Intel, IBM Power 7, Power 8 and System z. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 installation is supported only on x86_64 box though it can run on x86
processor as virtual machines.
2. Network boot and Installation media is powered with GRUB2 boot loader.
3. Turbostat tool which is a part of kernel is updated to support new processors.
4. Installer Anaconda has been updated to improve installation.
5. Kdump which is used for kernel crash dumping is now configurable from the installation screen.
Previously it could be configured on first boot and not before that. Also kdump will have large
memory upto 6TB in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
6. Manual Partitioning has been improved with a little change in the location of controls.
7. Network bridge is now configurable from the Network and Hostname interface.
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