Again, stating the obvious -> This blog post is just my speculation.
Edit -> An update on this blog post is at http://aajkyakaroon.blogspot.com/2018/06/rhel-8-release-date-update-2-chasing.html
An update on my previous post regarding my speculation on RHEL 8. Well, August has gone and no signs of RHEL 8, even in an alpha/beta version. So, what went wrong with my previous speculation. The answer is Remote Desktop Capability.
Well, Gnome <3.26, on Wayland, lacks the ability to connect to a remote desktop! This will be a major drawback for any enterprise OS. Hence, the wait in releasing/finalizing RHEL 8. They are waiting for Gnome 3.26 to be released and incorporated in a Fedora release. Then they would base the RHEL 8 to that Fedora release.
So when would a Fedora release have Gnome 3.26? This would be the upcoming Fedora 27 that is to be released on, tentatively, 24 October 2017. This date can also change, as all the other recent Fedora release date have changed. In addition, I do not think that they would release RHEL 8 as soon as Fedora 27 is in the market. Maybe they would wait for Fedora 28 and then release RHEL 8. Fedora 28 is scheduled on, tentatively, 1 May 2018.
So, I would take the mid of 2018 to be the release of beta version of RHEL 8 and maybe end of 2018 or somewhere in the beginning of 2019 to be the actual release date of RHEL 8.
This will result in the largest gap we have seen between two major releases of RHEL.
As mentioned in the top of this post, an update on this blog post is available at (RHEL 8 Release Date Update # 2 -> Chasing Perfection) http://aajkyakaroon.blogspot.com/2018/06/rhel-8-release-date-update-2-chasing.html
Edit -> An update on this blog post is at http://aajkyakaroon.blogspot.com/2018/06/rhel-8-release-date-update-2-chasing.html
An update on my previous post regarding my speculation on RHEL 8. Well, August has gone and no signs of RHEL 8, even in an alpha/beta version. So, what went wrong with my previous speculation. The answer is Remote Desktop Capability.
Well, Gnome <3.26, on Wayland, lacks the ability to connect to a remote desktop! This will be a major drawback for any enterprise OS. Hence, the wait in releasing/finalizing RHEL 8. They are waiting for Gnome 3.26 to be released and incorporated in a Fedora release. Then they would base the RHEL 8 to that Fedora release.
So when would a Fedora release have Gnome 3.26? This would be the upcoming Fedora 27 that is to be released on, tentatively, 24 October 2017. This date can also change, as all the other recent Fedora release date have changed. In addition, I do not think that they would release RHEL 8 as soon as Fedora 27 is in the market. Maybe they would wait for Fedora 28 and then release RHEL 8. Fedora 28 is scheduled on, tentatively, 1 May 2018.
So, I would take the mid of 2018 to be the release of beta version of RHEL 8 and maybe end of 2018 or somewhere in the beginning of 2019 to be the actual release date of RHEL 8.
This will result in the largest gap we have seen between two major releases of RHEL.
As mentioned in the top of this post, an update on this blog post is available at (RHEL 8 Release Date Update # 2 -> Chasing Perfection) http://aajkyakaroon.blogspot.com/2018/06/rhel-8-release-date-update-2-chasing.html
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