RHEL 8.3 Released With TSX Disabled By Default To Avoid Mitigation Overhead

[Zyklon]

Does anyone know if gnome-desktop will be updated?

[gilboa]

gilboa what I meant is they can take advantage of long stable cycle with preinstalled Linux laptops and desktop for home users. Many people want stability rather than more updates daily.

This I fully understand.
Problem being, desktop users usually are unwilling to pay for support, unlike professional workstation / server users.

- Gilboa

[jaypatelani]

gilboa what I meant is they can take advantage of long stable cycle with preinstalled Linux laptops and desktop for home users. Many people want stability rather than more updates daily.

[gilboa]

RHEL should release desktop OS with 3 year release cycle as window replacement and Gamers

They used to, it was called RedHat Linux.
RHEL came as RedHat realized, that being an open source centric company there's little money to be made by selling desktop OS support packages, but there's a lot of money to be made by selling server support packages (Which, i essentially the only difference between CentOS and RHEL).

That said, RedHat is the main sponsor of Fedora, which is a fine desktop OS (I personally use it and my company uses it across the board).

- Gilboa

[jaypatelani]

RHEL should release desktop OS with 3 year release cycle as window replacement and Gamers

[torsionbar28]

At this point, seems like intel should disable their entire AMD64 implementation, and switch back to Itanium.

[Peter_J_Georg]

Both the headline and the text are misleading.
Red Hat has not released RHEL 8.3 yet. They only announced that RHEL 8.3 will be available in the coming weeks.

I don't know why they need an extra announcement between announcing the beta and the final release.

[You-]

I know that RHEL is made for stability and won't have the latest versions of most software, but 8.2 came out on 2020-04-28. That's exactly 5 months after PHP 7.4 came out, so why is it only included now?

You need to go by the beta date. After that you will only get fine tuning.

8.3 has been in beta for a few months.

8.2 probably went into beta around the time of the php 7.4 release or soon afterwards. Enterprise releases are not just about packaging, but also about testing so it would take some time to make sure it was of adequate quality.

[RahulSundaram]

I know that RHEL is made for stability and won't have the latest versions of most software, but 8.2 came out on 2020-04-28. That's exactly 5 months after PHP 7.4 came out, so why is it only included now?

It has been available as a yum module in the app streams repo. Just in beta status presumably to give it more lead time.

[iruoy]

I know that RHEL is made for stability and won't have the latest versions of most software, but 8.2 came out on 2020-04-28. That's exactly 5 months after PHP 7.4 came out, so why is it only included now?