Coming almost five years after the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 series, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 series is now available with powerful new features and optimizations that lets you run it on any environment and supports any workload. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 lives up to its name as the world’s leading enterprise Linux-based operating system, meeting the unique technology needs of evolving enterprises. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 comes with lots of great new features for the hybrid cloud era and the enterprise world, including the Red Hat Smart Management add-on for to configuring, managing, patching, and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 deployments across the hybrid cloud, as well as Application Streams, which consists of fast-moving frameworks, programming languages, and developer tools that are frequently updated.