CentOS 8.2 (2004)

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The CentOS community edition from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is described as a "stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform".

The CentOS community edition from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is described as a "stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform" [1]. With this release, the updates repo disappears: All updates land either in BaseOS, AppStream, or both, as they are built and tested and then pushed to the mirrors [2]. Also new in release 8:

  • OS and Kickstart directories for each architecture
  • System-wide cryptographic policy customization
  • Supports OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3
  • nftables, chrony, and updated software throughout
  • Centralized logging with the systemd journald daemon

Infos

  1. CentOS: https://www.centos.org/about/
  2. FAQs: https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS8#I_don.27t_see_the_updates_repo_for_CentOS-8
  3. Wiki: https://wiki.centos.org
  4. Documentation: https://docs.centos.org/en-US/docs/
  5. Release notes: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.2004
  6. Art Motifs, Free Art License 1.3: http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/

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