The differences Feature CentOS 7 CentOS 8 Kernel Based on Fedora 19 and upstream kernel 3.10 Based on Fedora 28 and upstream kernel 4.18 Git Git version 1.8 Git version 2.18 Security Comes with support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and TLS 1.0 Comes with support for OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1 Software Management Used YUM v3, distributed with RPM 4.11 YUM package manager is now based on the DNF technology and it provides support for modular content. CentOS 8 came with other new features and the table below shows some of the differences that exist between the two. Released back in 2014, RHEL 7/CentOS 7 has many features that has served well for the past 10 years so far. Let us unmask this bit of mystery and proceed to see if unleashing CentOS 8 was worth it.ĬentOS 7 as it can be remembered was the first RedHat’s distribution to come ship with “ systemd“. This article tries to hunt and uncover what differences exist between the two versions of this beast of a distribution.

When CentOS 8 was officially released on the later parts of this year (2019), it is likely that many wondered what would have remarkably changed from CentOS 7.

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