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Episode: 2984
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Title: HPR2984: RHEL 8 Workstation first looks
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2984/hpr2984.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 14:18:14
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 2984 for Thursday 9 January 2020.
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Today's show is entitled, RHEL 8 Workstation First Looks.
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It is hosted by JWP
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and is about nine minutes long
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and carries a clean flag. The summer is
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running RHEL 8 Workstation on an HP Stream Laptop.
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Music
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Good day. My name is JWP
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and I'd like to talk to you about my rail enterprise 8 Workstation development instance
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that we've had running on my HP Stream Laptop for a while.
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So I had a podcast before where I talked about running Mint on there
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and on the stream and it was great.
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I did something to make the real tech driver work and it worked for a while
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and then I switched to mate and I couldn't get it to work anymore after that
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and finally it was just really frustrating to put an external doggle on a two port
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and it only had two USB ports.
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So I reinstalled Windows 10 and a few years later
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and now if you don't really don't have a 64 gigabyte EMC or SSD on your HP Stream
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it gets really, really complicated with two USB sticks and stuff like this.
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And so I had signed up for the Red Hat developer program to help me do containers,
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learn about containers and what they're doing with pod man and stuff.
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And so I downloaded a copy of rail and then I told them that I wanted to install Rail 8
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just the basics with the browser.
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And bone behold to my surprise that networking problem with that driver went away.
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I'm talking to you now from very far away from my router and I've got full steam.
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And so I installed it.
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It was, you know, to be very honest, it's very plain.
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I did install the OPL repository and it comes with the Git and Flatpack built in.
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I tried some snaps with it but it's quite,
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because of the SC Linux that's installed, it's quite interesting with the snap.
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Some of the snaps work, some of the snaps don't work.
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It just depends on the SC Linux. I couldn't get a Dacity work.
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And so I went through this journey and now I have GNOME Sound Recorder installed.
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And the other thing is this lap top.
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It only has two gigabytes of memory and 32 gigabytes of EMC storage on the thing.
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And surprisingly GNOME is coming up, you know, it's coming up with 1.6 usable.
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And it runs with, you know, four or five browser tabs, no problem.
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It was a chore for me to get software because I'm mostly coming from a dev world.
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Right? I opened two worlds, a devian world and as far as my things.
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And so I'm trying to get a little more into Red Hat, doing Red Hat a little more work.
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And so it's interesting.
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But so the lowest I've had it is about 800 MB.
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So just to do this when I'm talking to you now, it's about at 800 MB total.
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And it's okay. The thing is, is it never, ever, ever crashes or exchange with the memory.
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It's just really, really low key.
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And I can use DNF for yum to keep the thing updated.
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And it's really, really stable.
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And of course, it has the Red Hat on it with the enterprise Linux and stuff.
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And so I would say that if you need something, you know, what was the goal of this thing?
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Well, the goal of this thing was to get around the problem that I was having with the keeping the windows updated on it.
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And of course, windows was very slow and very unpredictable with only two gigabytes of RAM.
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And it did run Skype, so I could work.
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But this came out, this came out.
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And again, it's sort of memory thing.
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But this team's application came out the other day for Linux.
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And so what I'm able to do is I was able to use this team's application, installing on this, this real eight instance.
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And it shows it as a repository and everything.
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And it comes up in the GNOME software thing as well.
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So the, this team, it acts like a Skype client.
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So I can make all of my meetings and do all my stuff.
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I have my Skype headset on now talking to you.
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So it's, it's really, it's really quite OK.
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Now, the thing with the team, though, on this small HP stream laptop is that that's all you're going to do.
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So you're going to go to your meeting, you're going to need a notebook to write your notes.
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It may let you bring up like a text editor or a terminal or something, if you want to type some notes or something.
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But you're not going to get much more because it's tapping out about 1.8 or 1.85 as far as that goes.
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And so I was able to do the meetings that they didn't have any audio or presentation problems.
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But, but it's going to hit the cat, the swamp, and it's going to be about 1.8 if you use a team.
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So Microsoft, they did do us a great favor in the Linux world by having this team staying there.
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Because it, once and for all, solves the Skype and the meeting problem as far as work goes.
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And the, and I find that the real eight is really, really stable.
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Hey guys, I saw a bunch of emails from Ken Fallon about us not being nice to one another and the hacker public radio community.
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And I would just ask everyone, you know, really think about, you know, being kind to one another.
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The world is rough enough out there without us beating up on one another about some opinion or some view that we put in a podcast.
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Now, I can understand if it, you know, you're making something political or whatever.
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But in large, most people are just talking about stuff they're passionate about.
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I heard, I listened to a, a polo tie and a bow tie podcast the other day.
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And I thought it was quite amazing.
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So let's please remember to be as kind as possible to each other in our endeavors.
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And, you know, if you really don't like a podcast, hit the next button.
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You know, it just goes away or deleted from your phone real quick.
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It's just completely okay.
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All right. Hey, you all have a nice day.
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And if you need to get in touch, I'm at JWP5 at hotmail.com.
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Thank you so much.
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Bye now.
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