https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/oracle-linux-8-installation https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html
New in OLE8
https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8/relnotes8.0/ol8-features-changes.html#ol8-features-cockpit
COCKPIT pre-installed
podman, buildah, and skopeo container tools are provided
mySQL V8
Gnome 3.27
GDM uses wayland as display server
OCFS - not supported
NFS3V on UDP not supported
New multipath enhancments|features
SCSI Multiqueue driver support added
nftables replaces iptables
iptables rules can be converted to nftables and firewalld will use them.
Tools for Converting iptables Rules to the nftables Equivalents
TCP v 4.18
Pyton 3.6 included
PHP v7.2
Perl v5.26
OpenSSN v 7.8p1
YUM v3 DNF
new sysetmd pager behavior
Apache Tomcat package is not available in Oracle Linux 8.
in EPEL repos
Apache HTTP Server updated to version 2.4.35
https://sites.google.com/site/yetanotherocmoriginal/home/procedures/miscellaneous/create-vnc-server-under-oel8 https://sites.google.com/site/yetanotherocmoriginal/home/procedures/miscellaneous/create-vnc-server-under-oel8 https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8/obe-vnc-install/#Set-up-the-VNC-service https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8/obe-vnc-install/#Set-up-the-VNC-service vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf WaylandEnable=False yum install tigervnc-server tigervnc-server-module [root@oel8A ~]# vncpasswd Password: Verify: Would you like to enter a view-only password (y/n)? n A view-only password is not used cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /etc/systemd/system/ PARAMETERS hostname 128.226.<SUBNET>.&li;IP> port 1509 Password
rubby --info=ALL The default menu entry is determined by the value of the GRUB_DEFAULT parameter in /etc/default/grub grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg