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> That's a shame and once again it will fall behind quickly RH use kernel with TONS of patches, so, version isn't critical here.
Their frankenkernel is very hit and miss, backports or not. Docker had to disable a few features, because at first they seemed to work, but then they were buggy on RHEL.
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So I hope I can answer some of these [disclaimer: I work for Red Hat]: Python: This is about the module system. Modules let you install different versions of parts of the stack. For example, different Python, different Apache version, different QEMU. These will move much faster than base RHEL because they're now decoupled. You can install one version of each module from a choice of several versions available at any o…
I have experienced only joy switching from ntpd (and worse, openntpd) to chrony. Why aren't you happy with the ntpd->chrony move?
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So I hope I can answer some of these [disclaimer: I work for Red Hat]: Python: This is about the module system. Modules let you install different versions of parts of the stack. For example, different Python, different Apache version, different QEMU. These will move much faster than base RHEL because they're now decoupled. You can install one version of each module from a choice of several versions available at any o…
what about ansible? how does it fit into the "only system installed python"?
With Shadowman gone and Redhat now a branch of IBM, this RHEL release is really dampened for me.
Can you expand on that?
With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
I don't think so - I know the CentOS folk and they are working very hard on a release. There is no interference from IBM, partly because Red Hat hasn't been acquired yet, and partly because why would they kill a cash machine that's proven to work so well? Despite some nonsense you read online IBM are not stupid.
You haven't been around a merger & acquisition process, I take it. It's usually like the scorpion and frog parable:
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The scorpion climbs onto the frog's back and the frog begins to swim, but midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung the frog, to which the scorpion replies "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog )
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> Pretty colors when running dmesg! My most disliked feature. The colors in everything always clashes with both my background color (the best one for my eyes) and my vision in general. The first thing I do on any new system is to figure out how to turn of the colors. Otherwise I can't see any of the output.
Wouldn't it use the colors your terminal is configured to use?
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In EPEL probably https://twitter.com/RemiCollet/status/1063323527770750976
The enterprises I've worked where we've used RHEL... epel is not allowed near a system, only officially sanctioned repos and updates.
With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
And what is CentOS 8 ETA? I found nothing at CentOS web site :-( Do I miss anything?
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what about ansible? how does it fit into the "only system installed python"?
Ansible the client, or the target? Ansible doesn't need anything installed on the target (except sshd). For the client which presumably would be installed explicitly on far fewer machines it would bring in whatever Python it needs. I don't know if it uses System Python or a module however since I don't have it installed on RHEL 8 right now.
Still, I guess most people don't bother with that and just assume the presence of Python (at least on Linux, the bootstrap-using-raw approach is already required on FreeBSD and others).
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/raw_module.h...