After RHEL 8 release, users awaiting the release of CentOS 8

The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) this week, has made everyone waiting for CentOS 8 rebuild to occur. The release of CentOS 8 will require major overhaul in the installer, packages, packaging, and build systems so that it can work with the newer OS.

CentOS 7 was released last year, days after RHEL 7 was released.

So far the team at CentOS have made their new build system setup ready, and are currently working on the artwork. But they still need to work on their multiple series of build loops in order to get all of the CentOS 8.0 packages built in a compatible fashion. There will be a an installer update followed by a release candidate(s). Only after all these releases, CentOS 8 will finally be available for it’s users.

The RHEL 8 release has made many users excited for the CentOS 8 build. A user on Reddit commented, “Thank you to the project maintainers; while RedHat does release the source code anyone who’s actually compiled from source knows that it’s never push-button easy”

Another user added, “Thank you Red Hat! You guys are amazing. The entire world has benefited from your work. I've been a happy Fedora user for many years, and I deeply appreciate how you've made my life better. Thank you for building an amazing set of distros, and thank you for pushing forward many of the huge projects that improve our lives such as Gnome and many more. Thank you for your commitment to open source and for living your values. You are heroes to me”

So far, a release date has not been declared for CentOS 8 , but a rough timeline has been shared.

To read about the steps needed to make a CentOS rebuild, head over to the CentOS wiki page.