Sounds great. Count me in. Thanks.
-ln From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Wells Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Now Available FYI -- RHEL7 public beta is now out! Will be creating a new SSG branch shortly! Lets kickoff the RHEL7 STIG process ASAP. How about a community call next Weds, 18-DEC, at 1030 EST? This will give us the chance to chat through how the RHEL7 STIG will be generated, start breaking down tasks, and chatting through a rough project plan/deadline. Much of the conversation will be driven by the RH/NSA/DISA FSO stakeholders, though transparency will help drive community awareness/involvement. I'll be damned if we don't get a RHEL7 STIG squared away prior to RHEL7 GA (yeah yeah, famous last words...). -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Now Available Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:42:19 -0500 (EST) Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share news of the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Since its introduction more than a decade ago<http://www.redhat.com/10yearsofrhel/>, Red Hat Enterprise Linux<http://rhel.redhat.com/> has become the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, and it has helped set industry standards for performance<http://rhel.redhat.com/performance>, capacity<http://rhel.redhat.com/capacity>, capability<http://rhel.redhat.com/capability> and security<http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certifications.html>. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading force in enterprise datacenters; it spans nearly every industry and has advanced to deliver the original cloud operating system<http://rhel.redhat.com/sites/default/files/RHEL_Org_Cloud_OS_WP_10935437_0413_jw_WEB_0.pdf>, powering many of the world’s largest clouds. With today’s announcement<http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/12/red-hat-announces-availability-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-beta>, we are inviting Red Hat customers, partners, and members of the public to provide feedback on what we believe is our most ambitious release to date. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is designed to provide the underpinning for future application architectures while delivering the flexibility, scalability, and performance needed to deploy across bare metal, virtual machines, and cloud infrastructure. We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 represents the future of IT. As hypervisors and cloud deployments become increasingly common and face integration with physical servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 continues Red Hat's track record of cultivating a foundation upon which to build next-generation IT infrastructure. No other Linux operating system combines the flexibility and stability needed to handle critical workloads across all environments with as extensive an ecosystem of solutions and support. Based on Fedora 19 and the upstream Linux 3.10 kernel, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will provide users with powerful new capabilities that streamline and automate installation and deployment, simplify management, and enhance ease-of-use, all while delivering the stability that enterprises have come to expect from Red Hat. This further solidifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s place as the world’s leading Linux platform and a standard for the enterprise of the future. Whether rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments or scaling the business with cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 delivers the keystone to IT success. The beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 adds value to new and existing IT projects across industries by adding key capabilities to improve critical but often cumbersome IT tasks like virtualization and storage while offering a clear pathway to the open hybrid cloud<http://www.redhat.com/solutions/open-hybrid-cloud/>. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta showcases hundreds of new features and enhancements, including: · Linux Containers - Enabling applications to be created and deployed in isolated environments with allocated resources and permissions. · Performance Management – Using built in tools, you can optimize performance out-of-the-box. · Physical and Hosted In-place Upgrades - In-place upgrades for common server deployment types are now supported. Additionally, virtual machine migration from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 host to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host is possible, without virtual machine modification or downtime. · File Systems – File systems continue to be a major focus of development and innovation. o XFS is now the default file system, supporting file systems up to 500TB o ext4 file systems are now supported to 50TB and include block sizes up to 1MB o btrfs file systems are now available to test · Networking – Enhanced networking configuration and operation. Added support for some of the latest networking standards, including: o 40Gb Ethernet support o Improved channel bonding o TCP performance improvements o Low latency socket poll support · Storage – Expanded support for enterprise level storage arrays. Improved scalable storage stack for deployments that are less disk intensive. Improved storage management for heterogeneous storage environments. · Windows Interoperability – Bridge Windows™ and Linux infrastructure by integrating SAMBA 4.1 with existing Microsoft Active Directory domains. Or, deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management in a parallel trust zone with Active Directory. · Subsystem Management – Simplified configuration and administration with uniform management tools for networking, storage, file systems, performance, identities and security. Leveraging the OpenLMI framework, enables use of scripts and APIs to automate management. Today’s beta announcement marks the beginning of our public journey to introduce our vision for the future of enterprise computing. We’re excited to be starting this public journey, and look forward to sharing our vision with you starting with these key highlights of new and enhanced capabilities and continuing on our new Red Hat Enterprise Linux-focused blog, located at http://rhelblog.redhat.com/. AVAILABILITY The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta is available to Red Hat customers, partners, and members of the public. Those interested in trying the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta can download and install it<https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta> and tell us<https://www.techvalidate.com/registration/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-7-Beta> what interests them most about the Beta. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Please visit the below resources for more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta. · Access the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta today: https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta · Access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta (requires login): o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta release notes: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Release_Notes/index.html o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta technical notes: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.0_Technical_Notes/index.html o Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ · Follow updates about the Beta via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog: http://rhelblog.redhat.com<http://rhelblog.redhat.com/> Frequently asked questions (FAQ), collateral, presentations and more are available on the Product and Technologies (PnT) Portal (requires login) at: · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Beta): https://engineering.redhat.com/pnt/b-408987/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux: https://engineering.redhat.com/pnt/b-543/Platform Please encourage your customers and partners to download and try Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta. For additional details, review the FAQs on the PnT Portal or submit a question as a MOMENTUM ticket through the left navigation of Salesforce.com. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
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