[CentOS] Differences between CentOS 7.x and CentOS 8.x OS

On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 10:47 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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
> 

This is great information, Ljubomir. Thank you very much. I'll try to
validate your process this weekend using F28 as you did. That should
yield an older MATE v1.16. With that in hand, I'll try to re-run the 
procedure using the counterpart MATE v1.22 packages from Rawhide.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights IL