On 2019-11-15 11:13, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 2019-11-15 10:52, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> 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)? > > RedHat was diligent in following License Requirements. For the most part > the software they use is GNU licensed, and GNU requires: > > 1. all code derived from original be also GNU licensed, > 2. and as such, whatever [GNU licensed] is provided to customer, should > be published and available for everybody. > > The above prompted me to check what is the license for corosync. It > turns out to be BSD license. The last does not subject everyone to the > requirement of publishing [derived if any[] source code, and RedHat does > not publish srpms (as Alessandro mentioned) Correction: it was Stephen who pointed to that. Valeri >, and there is no violation > of License on RedHat side. > > I just satisfied my curiosity, I hope, this helps others. > > Valeri > >> >> 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 >> >> >> > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++