CentOS is a Linux distribution that provides a free, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL, under a new CentOS governing board. 


CentOS 8 is based on Fedora 28 and upstream kernel 4.18: Python 3.6 and limited support for Python 2.7, PHP 7.2, Ruby 2.5, Perl 5.26, MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 9.6, Redis 5, and etc,


In my case, followings are the steps when I setup CentOS 8.

  1. Install htop on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
  2. Install lynx on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
  3. Set Hostname on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
  4. Set static IP address on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
  5. Enable/disable network interface on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
  6. Configure Firewall on CentOS 8
  7. Remove/Manage services on CentOS 8


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