CentOS Stream^W^W Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 emerges in beta form
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/11/04/rhel_9_beta/
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This version is due for official release in 2022. Its predecessor debuted in 2019, the year IBM [1]closed the deal to acquire the Linux distro, and it right now stands at version 8.4, which was released in May 2021.
Red Hat's Gil Cattelain and Joe Brockmeier [2]said : "RHEL 9 Beta is something of a departure from previous major releases of RHEL."
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Hmm, what might that be? "While it contains many improvements and enhancements customers have asked for, it has fewer changes that require admins and IT Ops to learn new ways of doing things."
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In other words, while there are plenty of new bits and pieces in the distribution, there shouldn't be enough to scare away RHEL 8 administrators and users.
Four hardware architectures are supported in version nine: the Intel/AMD x86_64, Arm's aarch64, and IBM's ppc64le and s390x. It uses the upstream 5.14 Linux kernel, which brings with it a wealth of tweaks and updates since the 4.18 kernel of RHEL 8.
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In terms of new toys, live patching of the kernel is possible via the web console, and security has been shored up, with built-in utilities recompiled for OpenSSL 3, various enhancements, and finally a disabled-by-default password-based SSH root login, which is hoped to thwart brute-force attacks on superuser accounts.
Other updates include Python 3.9, GCC 11, and up-to-date versions of LLVM, Rust, and Go toolchains.
[7]Fedora 35 is out: GNOME 41 desktop, polished UI, easier-to-install closed-source apps
[8]CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)
[9]Thinking about upgrading to Debian Bullseye? Watch out for changes in Exim and anything using Python 2.x
[10]Huh, it's as if something happened that made people not like CentOS so much
However, for better or worse, it is CentOS Stream that will mark RHEL 9 out from its predecessors.
Last year, CentOS [11]morphed into CentOS Stream, which was based on a development branch of RHEL and not so useful for production workloads. CentOS, on the other hand, was a robust distribution for users happy to do without Red Hat's support. Much to the anguish of some fans, IBM-Red Hat decided CentOS Linux 8 would be the end of the line for the distro, meaning no CentOS Linux 9 or beyond.
Instead, as promised, CentOS Stream 9 was [12]released this year "as part of the RHEL 9 development process," as Red Hat put it. Essentially, CentOS Stream tracks just ahead of RHEL, like a rolling beta of RHEL, and as such can be used as a glimpse into what the next RHEL release will look like.
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Red Hat this week insisted, "We remain committed to our open source development model," adding: "RHEL 9 is a bold step towards Red Hat developing a commercial Linux distribution from CentOS Stream."
You can check it out yourself if you have a Red Hat account. The software house recently dropped the requirement for users to request RHEL Beta access, opening up Red Hat Beta Access subscriptions to all. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/09/ibm_red_hat_acquisition/
[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-rhel-90-beta
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/02/fedora_35/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/24/cutefishosreview/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/debian_bullseye_release_set_for/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/14/ubuntu_openstack/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/
[12] https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/
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[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Although I am thoroughtly disenchanged with RH this is OKish
RHEL 7 brought the shitshow called systemd. RHEL8 brought a welcome integration of containers and such like but a lot of changes. Now, at least the update will be less dramatic for a while. That said, I doubt we will rush to adopt this as we are still getting used to having RHEL8.
The Centos thing was truly stupid though and I may wind up looking at other Debian based distros
Re: Although I am thoroughtly disenchanged with RH this is OKish
I see a lot of folks, who, like me, hates systemd so much to the point of going to great lengths to even put BSDs in production places where Linux would sit just fine.
Luckly some distros are starting to offer "/systemd-free/" flavours. Hope it gets into RHEL.
Re: Although I am thoroughtly disenchanged with RH this is OKish
Seeing as Red Hat is one of the main developers behind systemd, I wouldn’t hold my breathe.
Re: Although I am thoroughtly disenchanged with RH this is OKish
I think you mean Leinart Poettering... Don't worry, I'm sure his next project will make PulseAudio and SystemD look like childs play. Or do I have that backwards.
RHEL 8 was the Windows Vista of Linux distros. Even the upgrade paths from various minors of RHEL 7 was a PITA.
Let's hope RHEL 9 migration is smoother.
Upgrading from one major RHEL to another is almost always either impossible or not for the faint of heart. It’s almost always a reinstall. :(
Sure, they somewhat support it, but I wouldn’t trust it.
As far as being Vista, if that’s true, then 7 was ME.
No, it's RHEL6 that was either Vista or Win8. That's when they switched their init system to Upstart, only to drop it for systemd in RHEL7. They also decided to enable "consistent network device naming" in a MINOR VERSION update, so everybody's "eth0" devices changed to "enp2s0" or some such, breaking everyone's networking on reboot after upgrading. You would have done well to skip CentOS6.
I have various issues with RHEL8, like the overbearing bash completion (e.g. can't "yum install" local RPMs), excessive colourization aliases, and aggressive removal of older hardware. But RHEL8 is mostly fine, and an improvement over RHEL7 (where RHEL for example decided disabling the --user option to systemctl was a great idea)... More modern software works on it, it supports newer hardware, and is plenty stable.
Does bash completion work for “dnf install”?
Why (honest question) are you not using 'yum localinstall nnn.rpm' ?
Whether you use dnf or yum, and install or localinstall args, RHEL8 has a long pause (searching the repo) every time you hit TAB. The bash_completion is VERY stupid.
Elephant in the room
For me, the elephant in the room with RHEL9 is the insistence on using Network Manager to manage interfaces.
Tho 'old' network scripts will no longer work, which will mean a major headache for us, as we use Puppet extensively to manage interfaces/ bonding etc.
Re: Elephant in the room
NetworkManager can be controlled by an automation framework just fine. Ansible does it perfectly well. I don't use puppet, but there's no reason it can't also.
Re: Elephant in the room
Agreed 100%. I have an excellent role for ifcfg files and it'll be painful to change.
Already migrated to Rocky and it's working just fine.
I don't suppose this will not be very popular
but I do wish I.B.M. had not bought Red Hat. They should have left well alone and, maybe, put the money to "doing up" OS2. And this time, put some effort into selling it.
Re: I don't suppose this will not be very popular
I think their idea was to acquire a business unit which had some prospect of making some money.
Let's just hope they don't **** it up too much. After the CentOS Fiasco, I won't be holding my breath though.
Re: I don't suppose this will not be very popular
OS/2 updated...
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[1] https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
With even Red Hat itself getting a budget cut, is time to move on to something else.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/red_hat_jobs/
RHEL 9
If you like Cockpit - nice sysadmin through the Web - it'll be lovely. If you like minimal change it'll be fine for the next five years - but RHEL 10 will be here in 2024 just as RHEL7 dies ...
If you want to do up to date software - meh, as always. If you've users who want to do stuff that isn't in core RHEL and demands third party repositories -- well, at least in RHEL 9 they will have sorted out some of the modules hell.
I've said it for a long time: support is a movable feast. Rather than migrate to "one of the Debian-based distros" - just use Debian (unless your bean counters want large scale support in which case pay for Ubuntu, maybe).
A pint for "We're on a highway to RHEL" -->