With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
What is IBM doing with this?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#12With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
Probably Red Hat Universal Base Image would be good enough for development instead of waiting for CentOS;
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal...
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#13I sure Love that "web consol".
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#14Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#15I have no appreciable Linux skills so forgive my naïvety with this question: In the promo vid on their site, there are a couple of people gaming. Is this alluding to the fact that you can game on RHEL or that it powers the backend of games? Just curious...
Probably a little bit of both.
You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for that task.
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#16With Shadowman gone and Redhat now a branch of IBM, this RHEL release is really dampened for me.
Can you expand on that?
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#17With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
If anything, CentOS 8 will be faster since they won't have to deal with a big migration this time.
IBM has zero incentive to interfere with CentOS, it's the best advertising for RHEL they can get.
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#19Wrote this comment a while ago for anyone wondering about this: Just installed it in a VM, changes that jumped out at me: • No Python (that you should develop against) installed out of the box. There's a /usr/libexec/platform-python (3.6) that yum (dnf) runs against, and then python2/python3 packages you can optionally install if you want to run python scripts. • Kernel 4.18 • No more ntpd, chrony only • /etc/sysconf…
It makes a lot of sense that OS-stuff points to a seperate Python interpreter, don't you think? I like this approach.
Aye; this should have been done a long time ago. I wanted to say 'since the beginning' (whenever that was), but maybe there were good reasons 20 years ago that I can't recall.
It probably made sense when disk space was a lot more constrained.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#20With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
Unlikely tbh.