Chapter 5. Operating System and Architecture Supported for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
.NET Core 1.1 is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x86_64 Server, Workstation, and HPC Compute Node. .NET Core 1.1 is also available for Red Hat Enterprise Atomic Host and OpenShift Platform.
The .NET Core platform comprises runtime, library, and compiler components. As a developer, you have the flexibility to use the components in numerous configurations for device and cloud workloads.
The .NET Core platform provides:
- automatic memory management
- type safety
- delegates and lambdas
- generic types
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- asynchronous programming
- native interoperability
C# is one of the prominent languages in the .NET Core platform. The platform also includes VB and F# to support such modern language features as generics, LINQ, and async support, to name a few.

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