On 1/16/20 2:07 PM, Warren Young wrote:
On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
...or maybe even 8.1.1911 (which is part of the name of the DVD ISO file), but officially it's CentOS 8 (1911).
$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) Release: 8.1.1911 Codename: Core
Sure; I said 'officially' not 'technically' and 'technically' it's 8.1.1911. That was part of the hashing back in the early days of C7. /etc/centos-release also contains the 'technical' release number.
(I had assumed my reply would have been more obviously tongue-in-cheek to anyone who's been around CentOS for any length of time...... :-) sorry I didn't make it clearer)