On 10/5/19 3:14 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > On 10/4/19 6:59 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 04:52:28PM -0600, David G. Miller wrote: >>> On 10/3/19 1:37 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>>> On 10/3/19 5:49 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I will appreciate it if someone can help me understand the differences >>>>> between CentOS 7.x and CentOS 8.x OS. I look forward to hearing >>>>> from you >>>>> and thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>> In short, CentOS 7.x is based on Fedora 19 while CentOS 8 is based on >>>> Fedora 28. Most of what is in those Fedora's is also in coresponding >>>> CentOS version. Fedora's might be much easier to compare. >> <snip> >> >>> This sort of cuts across two discussion threads but I found this one >>> first. Silly question: has anyone tried using the Mate or Xfce >>> Fedora 28 spins as package sources with CentOS 8? >> I think someone did post recently that he took Mate from F28 >> and with some judicious tweaking of the spec file got it built >> and working on C8. Sorry, I have no details. >> >> > Hopefully, the perpetrator will 'fess up and provide the details. > > Cheers, > Dave > "It is I, Leclerc" Here is what I did to have working MATE from Fedora 28 repositories (did not recompile anything): https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-September/173533.html -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant