[CentOS] CentOS 8.0 1905 is now available for download

Wed Sep 25 17:36:31 UTC 2019
Jon Pruente <jpruente at riskanalytics.com>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:01 PM Łukasz Posadowski <mail at lukaszposadowski.pl>
wrote:

> I'm trying it right now. I pleasantly discover PHP 7.2 with fpm and
> Python 3.6, which is exactly what I installed from 3rd party
> repositories in Centos 7 on my vps. I will test upgrade from C7 to
> disable epel and webtatic.


Did you try SCL instead of directly installing packages from another repo?
It is similar to how the new Appstreams allow multiple concurrent versions.


> I'm waiting for blogs and "youtubs" to report
> on appstream and what I could install from Fedora maybe. I have more
> confidence in Fedora repos than epel, since the latter is usually
> rebuild Fedora packages anyway.
>

EPEL is a Fedora SIG project.