Hi Ernie, > Centos 8 is still not out.
Yeah, they're taking their sweet time with it. :-( The progress page of the porting also hasn't been updated since 15th August and the item "Release Work" is the only one left open. They're communicating the progress in a somewhat lackluster way. I also suspect that they pulled off some developers to port CentOS 7.7, which is also way overdue. > Have tried to compile 5210R with Oracle Linux 8 which is also RHEL based ? > It's been out since Jul 18. > > https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-the-release-of-oracle-linux-8 No, I haven't. It would be a sort of useless intermediary step to set up a full building, testing and repository environment for something I'll be ditching like a hot potato once CentOS 8 comes out. Also: The only download option for Oracle Linux 8 is 17 Gigabytes and you have to get it through the Oracle shopping cart (even if it's free of costs for evaluation). The final nail into the coffin is their licensing policy, which is so bemusing that it deserves to be properly ridiculed. They take all the licenses that RedHat released RHEL 8 under (GPL, Mozilla, Apache. CPL, GL/GPL, etc.) and slap on at least *four* Oracle specific licenses (could be five if you include the "Oracle Special Programs License Agreement"). The "Oracle Standard Terms and Restrictions" would hold me accountable for export violations if someone from Venezuela or Iran downloaded an Oracle Linux 8 based 5210R ISO image *and* everyone using an Oracle based 5210R BlueOnyx would have to agree to "Upon 45 days written notice, Oracle may audit your use of the Programs." Oracle is the prime example of a greed driven parasitic enterprise and I'll *not* do anything that promotes using their stuff. As far as I'm concerned they're a reverse Midas: Everything they touch turns into shit. ;-) -- With best regards Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx