On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi all, I've several questions about C8. I'm using 8 on my personal NAS and works very well. I'm running several VMs with centos 8 and noticed something:
- Why corosync, pacemaker and pcs are missing on C8? They are only
available on rhel with payments( rhel ha addons)? 2) Why there is only Gnome as available DE? I use centos on my workstation and I'm a kde-plasma user. XFCE is ok but not gnome. I tried fedora, it has all software that I need and it is a very good distro but I don't like too
Many things are available in the epel-testing repo. Even though it's marked testing, many packages (such as openbox and rxvt-unicode are quite stable. I would guess XFCE is available there but as I don't use it, I haven't looked.
much update and its EOL (upgrade/reinstall every 13 months on a workstation is not so good for me). I don't want to be forced to install another stable distro like debian (This not means that debian is bad but I prefer centos). 3) I have a VM with C8 installed. I got several updates but I don't receive any update for 8 on centos-announce like for previous versions (6 & 7). Something has changed?
- EPEL. I know that EPEL is a Fedora SIG but I use several packages from
EPEL. There is a place to see what packages will be included in EPEL? For example, I tried to install audacious from epel but got errors for missing deps. Seems that EPEL8 is released but not ready. There is a ETA for this?
Again, right now, it seems that many packages are still in epel-testing. My guess (no knowledge, just a guess) is that as CentOS-8 is relatively new, a lot of packages still have to be made and testing.
- It's my impression or there are less packages in this release?
See above.
- Why cockpit installed by default?
- Why repo PowerTools was created? What is the main purpose?
This is part of rpmfusion, I think. I know that when enabling rpmfusion, CentOS users are told to also enable powertools. In the past, Nux provided a repo for multimedia stuff, but has run out of time and can not maintain it for CentOS-8. Therefore, one can use rpmfusion (and powertools) for multimedia needs.
- Why NetworkManager is the default method to configure interfaces? I know
that I can install network-scripts but I don't understand this change.
My snarky opinion is that this is what happens when single user laptop users develop a server O/S. You can disable it, or use nmcli (which is like NM though, I usually disable it, though the way RH works, I imagine that sooner or later it will be impossible to disable it and still have a network.
I only gave my answers to some questions, I don't know the answers to the others.