Refer to https://computingforgeeks.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel-8-new-features/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 is based on Fedora 28 and upstream kernel 4.18. This provides users with a secure, stable and consistent foundation across hybrid cloud and Data Center deployments with tools needed to support all levels of workloads.
Supported CPU Architectures are:
- AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
- The 64-bit ARM architecture
- IBM Power Systems, Little Endian
- IBM Z
Below is a list of components available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Python: The default Python implementation in RHEL 8 is Python 3.6.
- Database Servers: RHEL 8 provide the following databases – MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 9.6, PostgreSQL 10.
- Redis: The redis version available is 4.0
- Web Servers: httpd 2.4 & Nginx 1.14*
- OpenLDAP replaced by 369 LDAP Server
- Varnish Cache 6.0*
- Git 2.17
- Maven 3.5
- Perl 5.26* and 5.24
- PHP 7.2* and 7.1*
- Ruby 2.5*
- Node.js 10* and 8*
- Python 3.6* and 2.7*
- Rust Toolset 1.26*
- Scala 2.10
- Go Toolset 1.10*
- GCC System compiler 8.1
- .NET Core 2.1*
- Java 8 and Java 11
- Pacemaker cluster resource manager 2.0.0. The pcs configuration system fully supports Corosync 3, knet, and node names.
- glibc libraries based on version 2.28