New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 18908 (20H1) - May 29 Insider

Caledon Ken said:

First attempt failed on 0xC1900101

Removing Norton and retrying.

Second try installed successfully.

The last three builds do not play nice with Norton.

Ubuntu 19.10 crashed (suddenly home directory became read-only) so I installed Fedora 31 (Rawhide) with the latest kernel 5.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc31.x86_64 . It took awhile to get things together to run the uupdump shell script but I did created the 18908 ISO. Now updating my 119GB Windows desktop using the ISO. Also took awhile to get VMware WS 15 to compile but everything works save the Workstation Server which I hardly use anyway.

On this build my computer started to have sleep problems (it was waking up every hour and taking 2 to 3 hour to go back to sleep) , mine is set to sleep within 30 minutes of idling.

To solve this matter I had to disable "Universal Orchestrator Idle Start" because it was the one responsible for waking it up every hour, now seems to be sleeping how it was suppose to.

Thanks for the info on your setup. I am downloading RHEL 8.0.0 now and will set it up as a VMware VM. In general how does it compare with Windows Server 2019, in your opinion? Are you using VMware on your RHEL server by any chance?

PS. I am also downloading Windows Server 2019 Evaluation for use as a VM. If I cannot figure out why Workstation Server is not working on Fedora Rawhide (maybe a re-install of VMware would help) I may make a dual boot Linux system Rawhide/Ubuntu 19.10.

I'm having fun and challenges - that's what counts.

martyfelker said:

Thanks for the info on your setup. I am downloading RHEL 8.0.0 now and will set it up as a VMware VM. In general how does it compare with Windows Server 2019, in your opinion? Are you using VMware on your RHEL server by any chance?

PS. I am also downloading Windows Server 2019 Evaluation for use as a VM. If I cannot figure out why Workstation Server is not working on Fedora Rawhide (maybe a re-install of VMware would help) I may make a dual boot Linux system Rawhide/Ubuntu 19.10.

I'm having fun and challenges - that's what counts.

Hi there
@martyfelker

I'm still playing with it -- I'm disappointed by the decision though to drop KDE as a desktop --if you like using a GUI I think the KDE plasma 5 desktop is far nicer than GNOME -- but with Linux as you well know you can install any GUI you like -- the KDE desktop still installs though !!

For a straight server you don't need a GUI so I'm using two RHEL 8 systems -- one a lean and mean server VM and one with a GUI as the HOST -- you do need a GUI if you want to use VMWare and host a load of VM's (probably true also if you use Oracle's Virtual box which isn't my favourite VM software).

So far I'm impressed -- installation was a breeze. (However being a big CENTOS user which is based on RHEL I am used to all the various quirks of the system). DNF also is far easier and better than YUM -but you can still use both.

RHEL 8 though uses kernel 4.x rather than 5 so if you want to use kernel 5 you probably will have a shedload of work to do to get a load of applications running if you compile from source.

For Multi-media you can "force" the nux-dextop repo as well : (VLC, multi-media, deluge - torrent client -- Torrents from TPB shh!!!! use Tor if blocked in US --Iceland is much more open with these things -- and all those sorts of other stuff such as multi-media servers like PLEX / KODI). Don't forget though if you want to attach NTFS formatted HDD's / SSD's you will need to enable ntfs-3g.

Software RAID is worth installing (probably there by default) and another good package is system-storage-manager. Much easier and user friendly system of how devices are displayed etc than lsblk. To use enter command as root : ssm list.

Also install samba if you want networking.

I'm sure though you will understand that RHEL is basically a server so to get it suitable for a workstation you need to add all sorts of bits and pieces -- unlike Windows server 2019 it's FREE (assuming you downloaded from RHEL developers site --free to enrol for individual users).

I'm running 3 Windows VM's so far on it, the non GUI version of RHEL 8 and an earlier CENTOS release - seems to perform very well. That's 5 VM's and no performance issues on a 32 GB RAM machine with dual XEON processor system. Cpu load doesn't even look as if it's over 5% !!. Was thinking of upping RAM to 64GB but really not necessary -- those older XEON processors still "Kick ass" even compared to some of the newer processors out there.

I could probably run the entire US Federal Govt income tax system on this machine !!!! with loads to spare.

(Maybe I'll email POTUS saying I could do it and save US taxpayers a few billion Dollars !!!!!!!).

Note also the Fedora Repo's are available as well as "el-repo" -- good for latest kernels and nvidia graphics if you have those -- you need to install probably dkms and then kmod-nvidia and nvidia-detect and the basic epel one (dnf - add epel-release).

Cheers
jimbo