Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#2In case someone from RH is reading this: “Get the Study” links to https://www.redhat.com/en/page-not-found
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#3Here are the actual release notes (which don't seem to be linked anywhere from this marketing page):
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#4Wrote 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/sysconfig/network-scripts is a ghost town, save for a lonely ifcfg file for my network adapter. No more /etc/init.d/network, so /etc/init.d is finally cleaned out. It looks like static routes still go in route- and you ifdown/ifup to pull those in (it calls nmcli).
• Pretty colors when running dmesg!
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#5Wrote 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.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#6With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#7One thing to keep in mind if you build a lot of C++ -- this is the first RHEL version to use the C++11 ABI. Be prepared!
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#8Wrote 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.
Exactly, and with App Streams you won't be stuck on an old Python version! This is an awesome feature.
You already have that on CentOS/RHEL 7 with Software Collections, and App Streams make it a first-class citizen.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#9I 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...
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
#10With Shadowman gone and Redhat now a branch of IBM, this RHEL release is really dampened for me.