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Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • Wayland is the new windowing system designed to replace X11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

  • RHEL 8 introduces the new Authselect utility, which simplifies the configuration of user authentication, replacing the Authconfig utility.

  • On RHEL 8, Chrony is the implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

  • A RHEL 8 default installation does not include Python. Both Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 are available on the AppStream repository.

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