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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net)
Etcetera writes: Fresh on the heels of the IBM purchase announcement, Red Hat released RHEL 7.6 today. Business press release is here and full release notes are here. It's been a busy week for Red Hat, as Fedora 29 also released earlier this morning. No doubt CentOS and various other rebuilds will begin their build cycles shortly. The release offers improved security, such as support for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 specification for security authentication. It also provides enhanced support for the open-source nftables firewall technology.
"TPM 2.0 support has been added incrementally over recent releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as the technology has matured," Steve Almy, principal product manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Red Hat, told eWEEK. "The TPM 2.0 integration in 7.6 provides an additional level of security by tying the hands-off decryption to server hardware in addition to the network bound disk encryption (NBDE) capability, which operates across the hybrid cloud footprint from on-premise servers to public cloud deployments."
"TPM 2.0 support has been added incrementally over recent releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as the technology has matured," Steve Almy, principal product manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Red Hat, told eWEEK. "The TPM 2.0 integration in 7.6 provides an additional level of security by tying the hands-off decryption to server hardware in addition to the network bound disk encryption (NBDE) capability, which operates across the hybrid cloud footprint from on-premise servers to public cloud deployments."
All of /etc has been moved to a flat binary database now called REGISTRY.DAT
A new configuration tool known as regeditor authored by Poettering himself (accidental deletion of /home only happens in rare occurrences)
In kernel naughty words filter
systemd now includes a virtual userland previously known as busybox
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
SystemD:
Linux: Why do people hate systemd? (Jan 18, 2017 )
List of articles critical of systemd
Introducing SystemD without proper extended community discussion seemed to be a way for Red Hat to make money. Problems with SystemD? Pay Red Hat to help.
IBM:
What will be the effect of SystemD on IBM's reputation? Will SystemD damage IBM's reputation? Does IBM see SystemD as a way to make money? Will IBM be as socially dis-functional as Red Hat?
CentOS peeps need to get real and start selling support contracts, hire away Red Hat refugees. Leave IBM with nothing but a worthless trademark.
Just quoting for Scott Adams to notice for his cliche list.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Will IBM force them to up the kernel number?
IBM started adopting linux around the time they stopped advertising OS/2, and right before they started trying to phase out AIX.
They also have been directly competing with RedHat to sell linux support for about that long. Not always the same type of support or the same customer base.
I suppose you mean Scientific Linux, as CentOS is owned by redhat.
Having trouble typing two-letter words correctly in your non-vi editor?
No it's not. The developers are on the RedHat payroll, but RedHat do no own any of the "intellectual property" that makes CentOS.
I would certainly like to see an attempt at a hostile acquisition there.
Why not Devaun to replace Red Hat?
Devaun has no systemd, and great package management. It's based on pre-systemd Debian.
Devaun uses the same package management as Debian.
But Devaun is systemd free.
Probably what happened is that before they didn't want to sell, and some major stockholders decided that the time is right, so they made the call.
It isn't likely just "for" one thing. IBM is a professional services company these days, linux support is a big part of their business. When a big company buys their biggest direct competitor, it isn't going to be "for" some trinket. It is a strategic acquisition that not only helps them consolidate their niche, but it also gives IBM a lot of quality engineers.
Cloud is not the reason. It is just one of the many things they're competing in.
If RedHat was a failing company that was being bought cheap, then the buyer might have only wanted one part. Here, IBM is paying a premium price, because the whole thing has value.
Yes, Devuan is a systemd free option and I see this suggestion all the time. Better though is to use Debian without systemd because there are no hard dependencies to systemd (except maybe gnome). All you need to do is use sysvinit instead and place an entry in /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: systemd*
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1
and your debian linux will be systemd free.