Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64

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

Table 3-4 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 version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6: 4.18.0-372.26.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64 or later
Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Install the latest released versions of the following packages: bc binutils compat-openssl10 elfutils-libelf fontconfig glibc glibc-devel ksh libaio libXrender libX11 libXau libXi libXtst libgcc libnsl libstdc++ libxcb libibverbs libasan liblsan librdmacm make policycoreutils policycoreutils-python-utils smartmontools sysstat
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)