EL8 LCFG port project home page

Beta release now available - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta

Random jottings:

UEFI

by default?

NBDE

Support for network bound disk encryption nbde?

mail server

postfix replaces sendmail

tcp_wrappers

dead, need to switch to systemd

fstab component

desperately needs rewrite

network component

Redhat have deprecated the network-scripts package - release notes

python

2 is dead, need to upgrade any scripts to 3

home dirs

Make the _NO_DEFAULT_HOMES in lcfg/defaults/file.h irrelevant - don't support creating home dirs this way on EL8

pam_sss

Replace pam_krb5 (and pam_krb5_allbery) with pam_sss

ntp

Only the chrony daemon is supported in EL8

RHEL 7 Deprecated Functionality -- squinney - 2018-09-21