CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by jnwatson on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:36AM (#25355953)

Dunno. I just spent an hour trying to figure out how to set the DNS server on an interface on Ubuntu Server 20.04. There's no ifconfig, /etc/resolv.conf is out, no nslookup, /etc/network/interfaces is completely out.

It is like a completely new OS to me, and I've been hacking on UNIXes for 25 years now.

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by severino on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:10AM (#25356433)

I'm not sure the things you find missing are Ubuntu's fault. For example, while it's true that there is no ifconfig by default in Ubuntu (it's provided by a package called net-tools), one can read this:

> In 2009, Red Hat decided to deprecate ifconfig as the default command line network interface management utility, because the “net-tools” package (which provides ifconfig) did not support InfiniBand addresses (commonly used interconnect in high-performance computing applications).

So, many of the things that make Ubuntu look like a new OS to you, were actually decisions made by RedHat years ago, and they will also be present in newer RHEL versions.

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