This article is for those of you who do not want to install a whole new operating system only to discover some technical details about the default installation like disk layout, packages included, software versions, and so on. Here we are going to review in several sections what is like to have a default installation of CentOS 8.0.
Despite the kernel is 4.18 it detects successfully the new RYZEN/Threadripper AMD and the system is stable (we booted in UEFI mode).

Software

The CentOS 8.0 (8.0.1950) you can have

• linux kernel – 4.18.0 (4.18.0-80.7.1.el8_0.x86_64)
• Graphical User Interface
  • Xorg X server – 1.20.3
  • GNOME (the GUI) – 3.28.2
  • K Desktop Environment – NO, it’s depricated and not included in the release.
• System
  • linux-firmware – version: 20190111, release: 92.gitd9fb2ee6.el8.
  • QT – 5.11.1
  • libc – 2.28
  • GNU GCC – 8.2.1
  • OpenSSL – 1.1.1
  • coreutils – 8.30
  • yum – Depricated and replaced with dnf
  • dnf – 4.0.9.2
  • cups – 2.2.6
  • rsyslog – 8.37.0
• Servers
  • Apache – 2.4.37
  • Nginx – 1.14.1
  • MySQL server – 8.0.13
  • MariaDB server – 10.3.11
  • PostgreSQL – 10.6
• Programming
  • PHP – 7.2.11
  • python – 2.7.15 and also includes 3.6.8
  • perl – 5.26.3
  • ruby – 2.5.3
  • OpenJDK – 11.0.4.11 and also includes 1.8.0.222.b10
  • Go – 1.11.5
  • Rust – 1.31.0
  • Subversion – 1.10.2
  • Git – 2.18.1

Note: Not all of the above software comes installed by default.
The installation procedure you can find here – How to do a network installation of CentOS 8 (8.0.1950) – minimal server installation Minimal install with “Standard” Addons selected.
Installed packages are 547 occupying 1.8G space:.

[root@srv ~]# dnf list installed|wc -l
547
[root@srv ~]# df -h /
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cl_srv-root   50G  1.8G   49G   4% /

Note: if you do not select “Standard Addon” the installation occupies less space – 1.6Gbytes and installs only 397 packages.

Security

1. Access control security policies – Selinux in Enforcing mode.

   [root@srv ~]# getenforce
   Enforcing
   

2. Network firewall – Firewalld

   [root@srv ~]# firewall-cmd --list-all
   public (active)
     target: default
     icmp-block-inversion: no
     interfaces: enp5s0
     sources: 
     services: cockpit dhcpv6-client ssh
     ports: 
     protocols: 
     masquerade: no
     forward-ports: 
     source-ports: 
     icmp-blocks: 
     rich rules: