CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

CentOS 8 1911 has been released today as the community rebuild rebased to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 that debuted back in November...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-1911-RHEL-8.1

[ZeroPointEnergy]

Why are they not just calling it Centos 8.1 like previously? Because it is fun if we all need a fucking spreadsheet in the future to see what versions are compatible?

Who comes up with this shit?

[You-]

Centos 7 also had the date as version numbers.

[mroche]

The ISO names (and likely the /etc/{centos-release,os-release}) include the minor version number.

As does the mirror: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/

Cheers,
Mike

[Britoid]

The year is the upstream RHEL release month/year.

It makes sense to be honest, so you know that RHEL 7.7 came out after 8.0.

[144Hz]

A super solid desktop

[SyXbiT]

CentOS 7 took a while, but 7.1 and future point releases were much faster than this.

You can see the delays here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#CentOS_version_7

Hopefully 8.2 will be much faster.

[kgonzales]

Why are they not just calling it Centos 8.1 like previously? Because it is fun if we all need a fucking spreadsheet in the future to see what versions are compatible?

Who comes up with this shit?

Because its not 1:1 aligned to RHEL. The new terminology is more true. If you want a stable enterprise Linux with a predictable release process, buy RHEL.

And expect more of CentOS resources to move to Streams, which will make release numbers meaningless.

[nomadewolf]

A super solid desktop

Solid? Sure.
But i'm willing to trade some of that stability to get some newer software, polish and kernels...

[ThiagoCMC]

CentOS is the most bizarre/crap Linux distro out there! The first CentOS 8 boot (minimal) iso fails miserably! You have to change the package mirror manually to be able to proceed with the install... Just TROLOLOL!

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16456

Then, the "Next" button is beyond the screen limits, you can't even see it. Like, WTF?! lol

Utter crap! How can they release such a broken image like that?

I assume that whoever uses RedHat-based distros, have no idea about what they're doing!

Debian is light years ahead of everybody else.