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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

by lubomir on 5/7/19, 1:04 PM with 146 comments

  • by chomp on 5/7/19, 1:36 PM

    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/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-<adapter> and you ifdown/ifup to pull those in (it calls nmcli).

    • Pretty colors when running dmesg!

  • by w-m on 5/7/19, 1:36 PM

    Here 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...

  • by apaprocki on 5/7/19, 1:48 PM

    One 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!

  • by lelf on 5/7/19, 1:35 PM

    In case someone from RH is reading this: “Get the Study” links to https://www.redhat.com/en/page-not-found

  • by _Understated_ on 5/7/19, 1:51 PM

    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...

  • by foobarbazetc on 5/7/19, 4:55 PM

    Woooooooohooooooooo!

    We basically packaged our own RHEL8 on top of 7 and I’m glad we don’t have to do that for 95% of the packages anymore.

  • by acdha on 5/7/19, 2:45 PM

    They don't appear to have updated their official Docker registry yet but it should hopefully be available soon for anyone who needs to test things:

    https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a...

    Following the pattern of https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a... and https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a...

  • by cwt137 on 5/7/19, 3:09 PM

    I only saw one beta. Thats crazy if they released with only doing one beta.

  • by digitalsushi on 5/7/19, 2:24 PM

    anyone have any insights on how oracle does their intake of this to create OEL? it's always been a bit of a mystery to me.

  • by ParadisoShlee on 5/7/19, 1:58 PM

    I sure Love that "web consol".

  • by robbyt on 5/7/19, 1:45 PM

    With the whole IBM thing going on, I bet CentOS 8 is going to take longer than usual to be released.

  • by ilovecaching on 5/7/19, 1:51 PM

    With Shadowman gone and Redhat now a branch of IBM, this RHEL release is really dampened for me.