Beta Branch enable OPENSSL_SYSTEM_USE='y' by default for EL8 & EL9 in 130.00beta01

enable OPENSSL_SYSTEM_USE='y' by default for EL8 & EL9 in 130.00beta01

- enable OPENSSL_SYSTEM_USE='y' by default for EL8 and EL9 to use system OpenSSL versions for Nginx builds. CentOS 7 originally compiled OpenSSL 1.1.1 with Ngixn for TLSv1.3 and HTTP/2 support when CentOS 7 system OpenSSL 1.0.2 older didn't support TLSv1.3 or HTTP/2. Now with EL8 and EL9 operating systems their system OpenSSL versions are newer. EL8 uses OpenSSL 1.1.1 and EL9 uses OpenSSL 3.0.7 with backported patches keeping same version number. This will speed up Nginx installs/recompiles/upgrades as it no longer needs to compile OpenSSL 1.1.1
- you can revert to compiling OpenSSL 1.1.1, or 3.0/3.1/3.2/3.3 by setting OPENSSL_SYSTEM_USE='n' in persistent config file /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc before initial Centmin Mod installs or before running centmin.sh menu option 4
- other scenarios which will auto disable OPENSSL_SYSTEM_USE include, if you set LIBRESSL_SWITCH='y' or BORINGSSL_SWITCH=''y' to use LibreSSL or BoringSSL with Nginx instead of OpenSSL or when you set NGINX_QUIC_SUPPORT='y' to enable Nginx HTTP/3 which requires quicTLS OpenSSL fork compiled library with Nginx
- CentOS 7 will continue with compiled OpenSSL 1.1.1

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• Branch: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/tree/130.00beta01
• Commit History: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/commits/130.00beta01

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