CentOS 8 To Be Released Next Week (twitter.com) 25
New submitter JDShewey writes: The CentOS Project has announced that CentOS 8.0 will be available for download beginning Tuesday, September 24. This release was deferred so that work to release CentOS 7.7 could be completed, which means that CentOS 7.7 will be out shortly as well (and 7.7 it is already beginning to appear in mirrors and repos). This comes 20 weeks to the day from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Yay! (Score:2)
Finally! They had everybody leaning on reload when the status stalled at "everything completed but the installer."
7.7 took priority, blah blah blah, all good. Reloadreloadreload
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You'll probably want to wait until 8.1 anyway
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Only if you didn't know that the packages are downstream from RHEL, which has already been released for awhile.
Still has systemd? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re: Still has systemd? (Score:5, Funny)
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Apply ointment directly to the burned area.
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RedHat will stick with it until everyone else rejects it. So that's the next decade or two.
I hear BSD is nice this time of year
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Don't forget Oracle. They are waiting in the wings as well. I'm sure Oracle will make a mint if CentOS is out of the picture.
Re: Becasuse Scientific Linux was ready to take ov (Score:2)
I'm not sure how Oracle makes money by competing against a free operating system, but then I never thought that they would find a way to make money off of Java, either.
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It's Oracle - their legal department will ensure either **they** make a living off of it, or **nobody** makes a living off of it.
And by "it" I mean Java, but possibly business Linux distributions.
And I'd really like to know what the process for Oracle to come out with version 8 - did they truly download the source RPMs from redhat.com for their base, or did they truly start with the same versions? The former sounds like it's the only way to ensure substantial compatibility at all levels, but the second see
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...and the remaining alternative rebuild Scientific Linux
Unfortunately Scientific Linux is no longer an alternative going forward. V7 is the last version, there will be no V8 (although V6/7 will be supported until the end of their lifecycles):
https://listserv.fnal.gov/scri... [fnal.gov]
CentOS 6.5 was great - downhill sharply after (Score:2)
Real shame.
needs to have an easy way to upgrade 7 to 8! (Score:2)
needs to have an easy way to upgrade 7 to 8! without reinstall like ubuntu
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That's what Fedora is for, a rolling release. I'll expect I'll have to rebuild systems to move from 7 to 8. But yeah, it would be a very nice option.
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I'm not sure the risk is worth it for a distro which is aimed at stability. I'm planning to just phase it in slowly.
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needs to have an easy way to upgrade 7 to 8! without reinstall like ubuntu
Seems likely as there's a procedure for RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 upgrades: https://www.tecmint.com/upgrad... [tecmint.com]
Mate desktop (Score:2)
Hopefully the Mate desktop will be released for Centos 8 in fairly short order.
It's part of what makes Centos a great desktop operating system and it's much more usable and productive than the Gnome desktop that Centos installs by default.
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I'm just hoping someone like epel picks up packaging KDE for Redhat/CentOS.