Looks like Centos 8 is almost ready! Anyone making the jump when it does?
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Seems they are wrapping things up and integrating the installer into the image. Anyone switching from 7 straight away? Any things you hope they have changed or added?
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Personally, I've already made the jump to OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 from CentOS 7, but I'll still be downloading an ISO for CentOS 8. As I'll be interested to see if they've switched from yum to dnf (which funnily enough OpenMandriva uses, dnf that is) - not that dnf is all that different mind you (at least as far as using it is concerned anyway).
I'll also be installing CentOS 8 into a VM - just to keep up. Plus it will likely be useful if someone posts a question about CentOS 8. |
To officially switch, I'm going to wait until 8.2 or 8.3 release; if it is going to be similar to last time where more up to date packages were available on 6.x vs 7.0...
Will certainly give it a test in a VM however. |
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About once a year is the normal RHEL practice. Look at the CentOS 7 versioning Quote:
So from 7.0 to 7.3 it took more then 2 years. The .1 update is often rather soon as just after the first release many problems come out, but only 7.5 to 7.6 was just half a year (all based on the RHEL releases, the date field isn't reliable because of later changes). |
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I tested RHEL 8 recently and a lot of applications were not supported there yet. I'll be keen to use it once it's supported from an application point of view.
I'm also interested in the hype around dnf. Is it just better because it's easier to type? :) |
I won't be putting it into production immediately, but I'll be uploading it to my Nutanix to use and making a few test machines to make sure I can easily get everything working that I normally use. Then I might rebuild my servers with 8.
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I never said "I prefer dnf", I did say that from a usability point of view, I don't see much difference. |
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