Do you use Fedora Server? The Fedora Server Working Group would love to hear from you through our short 10 question survey. Your answers will help us focus our efforts to improve Fedora Server and provide better support for your use cases.
We Have Ideas
The Fedora Server Working Group discusses, plans, and implements the longer-term goals in upcoming releases. We have ideas like a ready-to-use home server appliance image, or special support for VPS/VDS installation in virtual environments, offered by Amazon Lightsail or Contabo. In some systems, the provision of a specially adapted image can greatly simplify operation.
We Need Your Input
Fedora Server’s wide use is not sufficiently represented by our small working group. This means your feedback is important. Our current ideas and goals are biased towards our interests and use cases in the Fedora Server Working Group. We can learn from you, users who deploy Fedora Server in a variety of places to meet your unique needs.
Tell Us How You Use Fedora Server
Perhaps you like to spin up multiple instances for short clustered workloads, treating Fedora Server like an unnamed herd of cattle. You might, instead, carefully name your home lab servers after ships from Star Trek or droids from Star Wars. Perhaps treating Fedora Server like beloved family pets. Your small or medium-sized company may run a public website for your Internet presence. You may have deployed Fedora Server as part of a larger server cluster with different operating systems. Each of these scenarios could benefit from specific adjustments to our default Fedora Server Edition. Have you already tweaked your install of Fedora Server? Through this survey, you can bring your experience and expertise to the wider community who loves Fedora Server as much as you do.
We Need Your Feedback
Therefore, no matter how you use Fedora Server, we would love to hear from you. We hope to learn…
- Where Fedora Server is deployed?
- What are the common use cases for Fedora Server?
- What improvements can we make in default packages, documentation, or services for our community?
Go HERE to take the 10 question survey. The Fedora Server Working Group appreciates your time and interest in Fedora Server.
Phoenix
Cattle and pets for me.
Btw. found a typo “treating Fedora Server like an unnamed heard of cattle” should likely be a “herd of cattle”.
Richard England
What? You never heard of cattle? Thanks for the catch. Corrected.
Max Parry
Made me laugh 😀
GroovyMan
4 years ago i started to switch from centos to fedora and -looking back- it was the right decision. The only concern was the maintenance effort, that was even time consuming on centos.
The pros for choosing fedora was the
– cockpit-web interface, that made it easy for me to use fedora as a NAS and a server
– modern version of postgres
– support for podman to run my service
Podman became the most important feature for me, because the setup for my web-based accounting system took some time with patching and other manual work to get it working. In order to keep it stable i used Centos with vmware running an stable but frozen linux environement with that accounting software inside.
The container architecture of docker/podman helped me to create a largely automatic process running an software stack that can be rebuilt with updated os-packages and newer versions of the accounting software.
And last-and-not-least the helpful ideas from the podman team helped me to get my container working.
Next time i willl also load a gitea or a gitlab environment on my server.
So Fedora server is the perfect server os for me.
Thank you for your good job!
Stuart Gathman
I generally start with Minimal install rather than “server” edition. Should I still fill out the survey? I still do most of those servery things.
Sohrob Tahmasebi
I really enjoy Fedora Server and hope it’s an edition that’s here to stay. I just submitted the survey and I wish there were an immutable edition of Fedora Server that didn’t require the complexity of Zezere/Butane/Ignition to setup like Fedora IoT and CoreOS do.
Gregory Bartholomew
systemd-volatile-root might be what you are looking for: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/attempting-to-use-systemd-volatile-yes/101784
Scott Mattan
Not necessarily about server, but for DNF5, it might be nice to have a way to do
installs for repositories that have a valid spec file.
Hugh
I actually use Fedora Workstation for my servers. That makes all my computers uniform. The major annoyance is how awkward it is to suppress the system’s urge to sleep after a few minutes of no GNOME activity.