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Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • Red Hat's multi-architecture initiative is about providing software support for a variety of processor and machine architectures powered by a common operating platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

  • The updated kernel supports, among others, 52-bit physical addressing for the 64-bit ARM architecture, 5-level paging, and Control Group v2 mechanism.

  • nftables replaces iptables as the firewalld back end.

  • nmcli is the preferred tool to manage network configuration.

  • Chrony (chronyd) completely replaces ntpd as the NTP implementation.

  • A number of obsolete network drivers have been removed from RHEL 8.

  • One of the new features for Yum is the package grouping method called modules.

  • KVM now defaults to the Q35 hardware model (providing newer hardware emulation).

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