On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:12, Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> 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: > OK most of these questions are going to be answered by the fact that CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not have something in it's base packages, it isn't going to be in the CentOS package set. > 1) Why corosync, pacemaker and pcs are missing on C8? They are only > available on rhel with payments( rhel ha addons)? Because Red Hat put them in a package set which is not shipped as source to CentOS to rebuild. > 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 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). Because Red Hat only did a build of GNOME for RHEL-8. > 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? The way modules and other layout changes come with RHEL-8, the old tools which are used for announcing updates do not work. Please see other threads on this for the request for help on this. > 4) 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? EPEL is a volunteer project and there is no ETA because it is up to the volunteers time and effort to build things. > 5) It's my impression or there are less packages in this release? You are probably looking for packages in PowerTools. Please enable this as this will also fix your audacious problem. > 6) Why cockpit installed by default? Because RHEL shipped with it that way. > 7) Why repo PowerTools was created? What is the main purpose? PowerTools is a set of packages which Red Hat ships as CodeReadyBuilder channel fo RHEL-8. It contains packages which are not part of the main distribution and would not have 'technical support'. [AKA if lynx were shipped in RHEL appstream it would have certain support levels for security and application fixes... it has few of those in Code Ready Builder.] For CentOS it is meant to communicate that CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL and certain problems may not get upstream fixes. > 8) Why NetworkManager is the default method to configure interfaces? I > know that I can install network-scripts but I don't understand this change. Because RHEL shipped that way. > > > > Best regards, Alessandro. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen J Smoogen.