Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, the first minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, which launched in June 2014. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 offers improved development and deployment tools, enhanced interoperability and manageability, and additional security and performance features.
The general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 coincides with the launch of three specialized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 to enterprises using the IBM Power Systems platform with support for POWER8 on IBM Power Systems based on little endian. Running on POWER8 offers higher performance especially for big data applications through multi-threading, more cache and greater data bandwidth, while little endian mode removes an application portability barrier and allows data centers running Power Systems to leverage Red Hat’s ecosystem of certified applications originally developed for x86 architecture. These certified applications can be more easily migrated between x86-based and POWER processor-based systems, giving customers the advantages of both architectures.
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 for Power Systems in little endian mode is a huge opportunity for developers and users, providing access to a larger ecosystem of Linux applications and allowing for easier porting and migration," said Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems. "As organizations adapt to manage compute and data-intensive workloads from big data to cloud, mobile and even social, infrastructure must also meet the challenge by providing higher performance and new workload optimization.”
Read the announcement here.