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).