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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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I 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.

Why is that? Is it driver-related? Or is it that RHEL is more for stability rather than speed?

Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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With 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...

Nice. I'm currently building an operator and this comes in handy.

Quick question: how do I differentiate between freely available and subscription-only containers on the Red Hat Registry?

Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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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?

Probably trying how to install (sneak in and make it hard to remove) the Watson Daemon as a background task for both back end AI and Front end desktop search AI like Cortana, Siri, etc..

LOL

Peace

Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why is that? Is it driver-related? Or is it that RHEL is more for stability rather than speed?

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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With 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.

The best advertising would be releasing RHEL 8 for free for personal usage. I wonder, how much workstation licenses ($300 per year) they are selling.

Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

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Wrote 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…

> 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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