What's new in RHEL 10.1: Offline assistance, convenient AI accelerators, and more

What's new in RHEL 10.1: Offline assistance, convenient AI accelerators, and more AI accelerators close at hand Image mode updates: Soft-reboots and reproducible builds Increasing developer productivity with updated toolsets Fortifying a next-generation foundation Cloud-crossing consistency with simpler image creation Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Product trial About the author Gil Cattelain More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share During the excitement of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) launch at Red Hat Summit, I kept hearing one question from customers and partners: When would an offline version of the RHEL command-line assistant be available? Today I can announce that it's on the way. As part of the RHEL 10.1 update, an offline, locally available command-line assistant is officially in developer preview. For customers with a Red Hat Satellite subscription, it offers AI-powered RHEL guidance based on decades of enterprise Linux experience. Companies and agencies in finance, government, defense, industrial control, and other heightened-security industries will find it particularly useful. A key advantage of this design is its ability to function in completely disconnected, offline, or air-gapped environments, eliminating the need for external network connectivity. This allows users to receive AI-powered guidance and suggestions for a wide range of Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks, including questions related to the RHEL installation process, troubleshooting, and more, without compromising security or relying on cloud-based services. Access to the offline, locally available command-line assistant requires a Red Hat Satellite subscription. The RHEL command-line assistant gets another improvement in RHEL 10.1 (and RHEL 9.7, also launching today): an increase in its context limit, from 2KB to 32KB. Expanding the command-line assistant's working memory unlocks more powerful, elaborate interactions. Now it can take on larger log files, pipe extensive data streams, and help with bigger tasks. Recent RHEL updates have focused squarely on making it easier for customers to embrace AI. With RHEL 10.1, we're improving a key aspect of the interaction between the operating system and the hardware that supplies the raw computing power AI demands.