This post introduces the locked down GNOME/Mutter kiosk mode on RHEL 8.

»Red Hat is establishing a small team directly responsible for participating in EPEL activities. «

Rocky Linux 8.4, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, is now generally available. The Rocky Linux community also provides a tool to aid the conversation from the 8.4 versions of Alma Linux, CentOS, RHEL, and Oracle Linux.

Less than two weeks after RHEL 8.4, the community-based, binary compatible AlmaLinux 8.4 founded by the CloudLinux OS team was released.

RHEL 8.4 includes the Container Tools 3.0 AppStream and new AppStrems for recent versions of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, and GCC, LLVM Rust, and Go. In addition, the latest release brings improvements for edge environments, like additional options for installing disconnected systems and the ability to use OSTree repositories with OCI container images.

»The Individual Developer subscription for RHEL can be used in production for up to 16 systems.«

AlmaLinux is a new RHEL fork, with its first release planned within Q1, 2021.

»Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux, now that CentOS has shifted direction.«

• Podman 2.0
• Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) disabled by default
• Expanded System Roles
• updated tuned

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 now generally available.