Building CentOS 8

This is cool. I remember going through this exact thing when RHEL 7 got released. It was many weeks before CentOS 7 was ready, and then a little longer still before Digital Ocean and other providers had images available.<p>It can be hard to wait, but it&#x27;s worth it. Looking forward to CentOS 8!<p>Oh, also worth saying that if you create a Red Hat developer account they will give you a free copy of RHEL to test with. If you&#x27;re planning to deploy CentOS 8 and want to test now, that can be a good way to get going before the CentOS 8 release.<p>Also, thank you Red Hat! You guys are amazing. The entire world has benefited from your work. I&#x27;ve been a happy Fedora user for many years, and I deeply appreciate how you&#x27;ve made my life better. Thank you for building an amazing set of distros, and thank you for pushing forward many of the huge projects that improve our lives such as Gnome and many more. <i>Thank you</i> for your commitment to open source and for living your values. You are heroes to me :-)

Timelines are always fascinating for me to see, given the massive amount of effort that goes into building something like this. Even though it&#x27;s essentially a &quot;it&#x27;ll be ready when it&#x27;s ready&quot; post, and we obviously know CentOS 8 will be released at some point, I&#x27;m still very excited about it. Thanks for all your hard work!<p>If anyone working on this is hanging around here, are there any particular challenges that are unique this time around? The init system not changing again must be quite nice, as mentioned in the post.

Another group of unsung heroes are the people who do the repos like Remi and EPEL

Fascinating to see the amount of uncoordinated (with RHEL) effort going into that, despite Red Hat now basically owning CentOS and employing the main devs.

I&#x27;ve been playing around with RHEL 8 a bit at work. I like the direction. Definitely looking forward to CentOS 8.<p>Work on eradicating old stuff continues. The &quot;system python&quot; setup also feels like an inspired choice which should make it easier to deploy python stuff on top of RHEL 8<p>With RHEL 7, trying to install newer versions of software via SCLs (in cases where it&#x27;s advisable) never felt like they were well-integrated. The new module system seems extremely promising; fewer people will have a reason to use eg. Ubuntu if RHEL provides the new stuff via modules.<p>Other than that, it doesn&#x27;t seem like there&#x27;s much that would surprise people who are already familiar with RHEL 7.

Thank you to the project maintainers; while RedHat does release the source code anyone who’s actually compiled from source knows that it’s never push-button easy

can&#x27;t they just use sed to replace Red Hat with CentOS ;) :D

Typical Red Hat... takes over CentOS and now they are going to take their sweet time to update it and we&#x27;ll end up with a bunch of EL distros again because Red Hat can&#x27;t automate anything. It really should be built the same day as RHEL. I don&#x27;t know anyone who uses RHEL anymore though because they are so antiquated.