Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Candidate Now Publicly Available

2014年4月23日

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

As mentioned during Red Hat Summit 2014 , we are excited to announce that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now for testing. A pre-release build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC offers a near-final look at Red Hat’s flagship operating system crafted for the open hybrid cloud, building upon the feedback collected during the for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Vital for helping Red Hat’s strategic partners facilitate full certification of their applications and systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC is now accessible to all interested parties, from end users to enterprises, seeking to gain insight into how Red Hat redefines the enterprise operating system.

Key features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC include:

• Expanded Windows interoperability capabilities, including integration with Microsoft Active Directory domains;
• Significant file system enhancements, including XFS as the default, scaling to support file systems up to 500 TB;
• Improved subsystem management through OpenLMI; and
• Virtual machine (VM) migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 hosts to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts without downtime or VM modification.

To download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC, please visit .

Members of the media who are interested in reviewing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 should email for reviewer’s materials.

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During the Red Hat Summit last week, Red Hat announced the release candidate for the upcoming major release of its enterprise Linux distribution - version 7: "For those not attending Red Hat Summit 2014 or not tracking the latest news and updates, you may have missed two important and exciting announcements. A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 release candidate (RC) will be made publicly available (starting next week). As a pre-release build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RC offers a near-final look at the only operating system crafted for the open hybrid cloud." Here is the brief release announcement. As promised, the release candidate is now available for public testing. Unlike the earlier beta, it has been split into Client, Server and Workstation editions, all of which can be downloaded from Red Hat's FTP server: (3,455MB, ), (4,042MB, ), (4,007MB, ).