I mostly hate the new network names, and I generally find that they're fixing something that was never broken for us, but I imagine there was some way you could get your eth* interfaces confused on reboot I guess. Strange that the latest vyos which is a router distro designed for lots of different interfaces that need to stay consistent through reboots still uses eth*.

Anyway, I imagine you should be able to use a groupinstall or whatever that is in dnf for XFCE for instance - my favorite DE. That said, work keeps wanting to ignore CENTOS8 for now, and now with COVID19, we're work from home and changing NOTHING till the crisis is over and we can go back to the office.

Personally, I don't think it'll be too hard to manage, though I wish someone would backport the security point releases like SL did so we could do updates when ready.

James Pulver

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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Larry Linder <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Revisiting Cent 8

Boss asked us to take another look at Cent 8 because Cent 8 box in
corner was using an IP address that is in middle of several machine
tools.

It had been running since oct 19 and we gave up on it at end of December
as basically worthless.

I looked at all the pages of directions on the internet and Cent pages
for a way to change the IP to a range that is used for our boxes.  When
you run ifconfig -a you see the configuration and no eth0 or eth1 but
you find enp3s0:
First I found the configuration tools don't work.
network-scrips is now empty.
I used yu to install scripts.
Edited eth0 to correct address and rebooted as "tool" didn't work.

Something is very wrong.  The manual pages from RH dont work, other
published directions are as if written for system zzz.  Cent help pages
are useless as they cover Cent 7 and little of no Cent 8 real help.

Anybody who has actually changed the IP to static sucessfully - please
tell me how they did it.

The boss looked at the bill for switching to another OS that is not a
derivative of RedHat and maybe a Macks and he wanted us to really look
at Cent 8 again.  As a business it all the bottom line, there is nothing
free.
We have a considerable investment in SL from 4 to 7.6 and I would hate
to think of the cost of just tossing it all.

Is there an alternative desk top as Gnome as it is terrible, You can't
have two terminals open at once at least on this system.

The only thing that worked was LibreOffice. The rest is nonsensical.
As you all can guess is that I am an engineer and not an IT person.

Larry Linder