Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64

Use the following information to check supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 distributions:

Table 4-3 x86-64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Minimum Operating System Requirements

Item	Requirements
SSH Requirement	Ensure that OpenSSH is installed on your servers. OpenSSH is the required SSH software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Minimum supported versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64 or later
Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Install the latest released versions of the following packages: bc binutils elfutils-libelf elfutils-libelf-devel fontconfig-devel glibc glibc-devel ksh libaio libaio-devel libXrender libX11 libXau libXi libXtst libgcc libnsl librdmacm libstdc++ libstdc++-devel libxcb libibverbs make smartmontools sysstat Note: If you intend to use 32-bit client applications to access 64-bit servers, then you must also install the latest 32-bit versions of the packages listed in this table.
Optional Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Based on your requirement, install the latest released versions of the following packages: ipmiutil (for Intelligent Platform Management Interface) libnsl2 (for Oracle Database Client only) libnsl2-devel (for Oracle Database Client only) net-tools (for Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware) nfs-utils (for Oracle ACFS)
Patches and Known Issues	For a list of latest Oracle Database Release Updates (RU) and Release Update Revisions (RUR) patches for Oracle Linux Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, visit My Oracle Support For a list of known issues and open bugs for Oracle Linux 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, read the Oracle Database Release Notes

Parent topic: Operating System Requirements for x86-64 Linux Platforms