I tend to ignore ANY distribution with a .0 suffix. Wait a few versions for the dust to settle. I am only now starting to migrate from SL6 to SL7. Also, I have always found the CentOS version of a release much harder to get going than the SL release. I have not yet decided what to do with the nonsense of SL not doing a version 8. I may end up going to a Debian based system like Ubuntu if I have to take as big of a leap as the SL7 to Centos8 sounds like.
________________________________ James Fait, Ph.D. Senior Beamline Scientist SER-CAT, APS, Argonne National Laboratory Building 436B-020, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439 f...@anl.gov<mailto:f...@anl.gov> Work: 630-252-0644 Cell: 815-302-2467 Fax: 630-252-0652 Light When You Need It ________________________________ From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov <owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> on behalf of Larry Linder <larry.lin...@micro-controls.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:02 PM To: scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov <scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> Subject: centOS 8 Nothing should be this hard to configure and set up. 1. The install did not recognize two other disks on system. if you run "fs" you get a list of disks and a number of /tmp partitions. When you try to edit "fstab" it is non-sensical. Didn't try to run "mount" as the man pages are not what you see. !!!! 2. Video is basic VGA and it ignored my GForce dual monitor card. 3. Tried to install printers and didn't see "cups" even though I selected it to install. 4. I tried to run a couple of our linux cad packages and bash could not run the process. Permissions and ownership was Checked but no luck. 5. Even setting up the sytem name and UID to what we use on the other systems had to be manually. Graphic network didn't give you a clue. 6. When it shuts down you have to pound on the key-board and try every key and then after a long time it finally wakes up. Couldn't what key did it. Just don't have time to screw with it. After spending two days I gave up. This whole think looks like a very low level business workstation for the mentally challanged. Run my IBM computer the way I designed it or just go away. You can only run my programs you can download. Most look retarded such as "CHEESE" is there a connection between title and function - its a major stretch of the immagination. It wants you use a cloud for everything - we don't want to use the cloud for anything. Our internet provider sometimes takes a 1/2 hr nap during the day. Its very fast when it works. (Spectrum) - AT&T in our location was hopeless, bad service, bad price. For now we are going to upgrade all systems to SL 7.7 and then look for a linux that is usefull for real engineering, manufacturing and business. The labs should look at building there own. Any suggestions? I will go back to work and give up on centos 8. If I had purchased RedHat 8 I would be really p****ed for getting ripped off. Larry Linder
