Hot on the heels of Fedora's release last week comes a Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new release comes with updates to user authentication via LDAP, Kerberos and FreeOTP as well as Security Content Automation Protocol Security Guides which are standards intended to make compliance and security testing easier. OpenLMI is a standardized remote API for configuring Linux severs and will be very welcome for those who have to manage servers remotely and may be one of the most heavily tested of the new features on this OS. Lastly, The Register notes that this version brings little-endian support when running on Power8 hardware which will make porting applications far less of a nightmare than it currently is.
"RED HAT HAS ANNOUNCED the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 Beta with enhancements to improve ease of use, manageability and performance, as well as support for IBM Power8 little endian architecture."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- A Walkthrough Of The New 32 System Open-Source Linux Benchmarking Test Farm @ Phoronix
- Are we ready to let software run the data centre? @ The Register
- How Identifiable Are You On the Web? @ Slashdot
- Google vows: Earth will VANISH in 2015 @ The Register
- Gift Your Next Robot With the Brain of a Roundworm @ Hack a Day
- Tech ARP 2014 Mega Giveaway Contest @ TechARP
The POWER8 processor is the
The POWER8 processor is the first processor to support little endian and big endian modes. I wish some site like Phoronix would test the Tyan(1) development platform with the Power8 4-core Turismo SCM processor, and Linux gaming. The development system comes with 16x and an 8x PCI 3.0 expansion slots. That’s 32 processor threads, 8 per core, on this Power8 CPU. I would love to see some ray tracing rendering benchmarks run, as well as some other benchmarks with Nvidia discrete GPUs, Nvidia is offering support for CUDA/etc. on Power8 based platforms. The full 12 core SKU based systems are coming starting in 2015, from the licensees.
There are licensees beginning to bake their own versions of the power8 reference deigns, Tyan being the first, and the membership in OpenPower is now growing more rapidly, after IBM, Nvidia, and OpenPower design win for the government supercomputer.
(1):
http://openpowerfoundation.org/category/blogs/