CentOS

The wikipedia article includes the initial kernel version for each point release (click "Show") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#CentOS_version_7

This is almost certainly due to the release of RHEL 8.2 which updated a lot of packages. EPEL builds against RHEL not against CentOS so this package has been rebuilt for 8.2 but there is no CentOS 8.2 as yet. You'll need to use the EPEL archive to find the older version that was applicable for 8.1 a...

Am i selecting the wrong ISO?

Yes. The netinstall iso has no packages on it and requires a network accessible full mirror to download from.

I do not know the solution to your problem but I can tell you that the php-soap package already installs itself by supplying /etc/php.d/soap.ini which loads the extension so you did not need to add it to php.ini. You should note that your system is out of date. The package php-soap-5.3.3-27.el6_5.x8...

Yew, flatpaks are useful. Sometimes. Their major drawback seems to be that they often pull in other flatpaks as dependencies and that can balloon quite rapidly. On CentOS 7 I used it to install vlc - normally a ~5MB rpm package - and by the time it had expanded that to include what looked like an en...

There isn't one. It takes man¹ power to create and update the site (if it's not updated then it's useless) and that man power is better spent actually building 8.2. The status is, as always, it's being worked on as fast as possible and when it's ready, it'll be released. * ¹ - for some non-sexist de...

As far I know, this controller is a FakeRAID one so all operations are done in software running on the host in exactly the same way as linux software RAID does. From that POV I would expect the performance to be much the same whichever you choose.

Last time I looked, the Red Hat instructions for using the Bxxx FakeRAID controllers said that the best thing to do was to disable RAID mode in the controller BIOS and tell it to use AHCI and then use Linux software RAID to make up any arrays you need.

You are not using the version of curl that ships with CentOS 6 which is curl-7.19.7-54.el6_10.x86_64 not 7.38. Running ldd -v $(which curl) will show you which libraries it uses. On the correct CentOS copy that shows lots of references to NSS and one line that refers to openssl: libcrypto.so.10 (OPE...

If it takes 8 seconds to write a 12MB file then there is something quite seriously wrong with your disk subsystem. Is it using a floppy disk?