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RHEL 8 Release
Boltersdriveer
Member, LIR
Looks like Red Hat just announced the release of RHEL 8, which means we should probably see some news about CentOS pretty soon.
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0__o I like it... CentOS +1
CentOS 8
And i still use centos 6
RHEL 8 pruff, I'm still
usingsuffering a Solaris 8Who upgrades to software with a version number that ends in .0 ?
CentOS: the best distribution for every body.
Debian no thx.
EOL Ubuntu.
WSS is nigh.
There is a long way for hosting provider to deploy centos8.
OpenVZ 8 when? /s
Will be interesting to see what new features CentOS will come with. We're still more of Debian fans though
Well RHEL 7 is obsolete in some packages so maybe a lot people ^^
Will the next release of Centos?
Hosting majors like siteground and EIG brands are still running servers costing upwards of $500/month on CentOS 6 with obsolete cPanel versions. No providers will bother unti Cpanel makes it mandatory to upgrade which is likely not to be sooner.
I'm still on Windows 3.1
The EIG brand I have a site on still uses their own custom control panel not cPanel.
I was wondering the same.
CentOS 8 will come out in say 6 months, cPanel will add support 1.5 years after that, get it stable 6-8 months after that, THEN people will start moving to it.
Oh yeah, and a few months after cPanel adds support for it they'll announce they're ending support for CentOS 7 2 years early.
/s
Sweet looking forward to adding CentOS 8 support to my Centmin Mod LEMP stack https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/projects/1 ^_^
Can anyone explain the advantages for a newbie? Besides a bunch of tutorials online becoming outdated?
I get that it will have newer kernel, higher memory capacity support and probably better security?
Will there be any performance benefits?
Newer Linux Kernel and glibc will mean natively and potentially better performance and security (i.e. better coverage of all variants for spectre/meltdown like migitations etc). One of the reasons is due to basically newer Linux Kernels having more native optimisations for newer cpus that have been released since the last Linux Kernel versions. So for Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 for newer cpus like Intel Skylake/Cascade Lake/Icelake and AMD Zen2 EPYC Rome. Also part of the newer Linux Kernels benefits is reworking the Meltdown/Spectre mitigation patches which had negative performance overhead and re-gaining the loss performance due to these mitigation patch/fixes.
FYI, one example was when I tested and benchmarked Centmin Mod with AMD EPYC 7401P server, CentOS 7 3.10 native Linux Kernel wasn't enough to get the full performance out of the AMD EPYC 7401P cpu so upgrading to Linux 4.15+ for AMD EPYC cpus is needed https://community.centminmod.com/threads/packet-net-bare-metal-cloud-amd-epyc-7401p-review-benchmarks.14097/#post-60307.
One of the reasons why I have been testing Centmin Mod's DigitalOcean 1-click app CentOS 7 image builds with a version that supports Linux 5 Kernel as from my testing alot of newer DO droplets are Intel Skylake based so they'd also benefit from Linux 5 when someone spins up a droplet VPS with CentOS 7 + Centmin Mod already installed
DigitalOcean 1-click app version of Centmin Mod seems like perfect place to offer up CentOS 7 + Linux 5 Kernel out of the box for both performance and security reasons https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-marketplace-for-1-click-applications.16835/#post-71516
I guess I should get some Centos8 skills, now that systemd has spread to the balls and brains, of major linux distros.
systemd is here to stay (systemd made me say that).
Usually CentOS tutorials carry on from generation to generation staying the same.
I have high hopes that they will not adopt more of that nasty YAML configs. It was a massive shocker when I encountered netplan. I vomited 2 days after it and discovered Debian.
Early RHEL8 benchmarks looking good https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27827. Would be interesting to see RHEL8 with Linux 5.1.0 Kernel instead of default 4.18 as well for newer cpu support