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How to upgrade to CentOS 8.1 & use latest packages

How to upgrade to CentOS8.1 If you want to upgrade to CentOS 8.1 from CentOS7.x, then please read this article. If you are using CentOS 8.0, then type Then type following command for confirmation. Result Then restart the server to update kernel. From CentOS 8.1, you can apply patch to kernel without rebooting even if you cannot reboot the server. kpatch can be used in following way. Please read detail at Redhat’s article. You can also check the detail of changes of CentOS 8.1 at Redhat Linux 8.1’s page. How to use latest module on CentOS 8.1 Ruby, PHP, nginx, node.js were updated in CentOS 8.1. PHP 7.2 => 7.3…

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How to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 and its merit

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Merit of upgrading to CentOS 8 from CentOS 7 Performance up It will give you better performance. In my case, when I checked DigitalOcean’s standard plan in Dec/2019, it yielded unixbench score from 477 to 603 using CentOS7, but after I upgraded the instance’s OS to CentOS 8, it yielded unixbench score 801, which means more than 30% performance up. In second try using different instsance, unixbench score changed from 605 to 860. The difference is hard to ignore. So if you want to use CentOS on DigitalOcean, you must upgrade CentOS from 7 to 8. Longer support It has more future support deadline CentOS 7: 2024-06-30 CentOS 8: 2029-05…