Chapter 4. Application Streams
Multiple versions of user-space components are delivered as Application Streams and updated more frequently than the core operating system packages. This provides greater flexibility to customize RHEL without impacting the underlying stability of the platform or specific deployments.
Application Streams are available in the following formats:
- RPM format
- Software Collections
- Flatpaks
In previous RHEL major versions, some Application Streams were available as modules as an extension to the RPM format. In RHEL 10, Red Hat does not intend to provide any Application Streams that use modularity as the packaging technology and, therefore, no modular content is being distributed with RHEL 10.
Each Application Stream component has a given life cycle, either the same as RHEL 10 or shorter.
RHEL 10 provides initial Application Stream versions that can be installed as RPM packages by using the dnf install command.
Certain initial Application Streams in the RPM format have a shorter life cycle than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
Always determine what version of an Application Stream you want to install.
Content that needs rapid updating, such as alternate compilers and container tools, is available in rolling streams that will not provide alternative versions in parallel.
