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I don’t understand why this is based on Fedora. Isn’t that more of a desktop distro…? And this seems more aimed at virtual machines running on EC2…? Or am I mis

• shaicoleman 5y ago
  "Our release cadence (new major version every 2 years) best lines up with a highly predictable release cadence of an upstream distribution such as Fedora." "We believe that having Fedora as upstream allows us to meet the needs of the customers that we talked to in terms of flexibility and pulling in newer packages." https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qzxkh3/comment/hlptw7l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qzxkh3/comment/hlptw7l...
  • bamboozled 5y ago
    Stability is important but less and less people seem to want to run 4 year old software.
    • cpach 5y ago
      I think it depends quite a bit on the circumstances. And as long as the kernel is decently fresh, one can run new shiny software using containers instead.
    • nicce 5y ago
      It depends on how do you define stability. Fedora packages are very stable in terms of bugs, but the problem of changes between versions might cause extra work. However, many run their services in containers anyway, and you can use the latest packages on your host.
• bluedino 5y ago
  Fedora has a server edition, and everything in RHEL/CentOS is old
  • afroboy 5y ago
    > and everything in RHEL/CentOS is old This is the whole reason why people use CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch. if you need your dev stack as newest version just installed it on the old stable OS base so you can worry only on your dev stack.
    • dharmab 5y ago
      Speaking as an ex-platform engineer, we needed to be on much newer kernel versions to leverage ebpf and other modern features
      • chasil 5y ago
        The Oracle UEK wasn't an option?
        • dharmab 5y ago
          Oracle was never an option.
          • chasil 5y ago
            I kinda dragged Oracle's UEK over the coals for xxhash. That was a red herring. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/btrfs-centos-living-loopback https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/btrfs-centos-living-loo...
    • darkr 5y ago
      > CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch Historically, CentOS has been very slow to release security patches, compared to upstream (RHEL). And for anything non-critical (but still often high) Debian stable tends to receive fixes a lot later than unstable, and sometimes never due to need to backport.
• AviationAtom 5y ago
  Fedora is the upstream for RHEL, and was the upstream for CentOS. While many folks use Fedora as a desktop OS alternative to Ubuntu, Fedora was not designed with desktops in mind. You are correct saying it is designed for EC2 instances, as it is the de facto default image for EC2 instances, despite many folks choosing an Ubuntu image instead.
• deleted 5y ago
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• m4rtink 5y ago
  Fedora is the source and integration space for many things these days, not just the Fedora Workstation any more. Its the upstream for RHEL/CentOS but also has a ton of editions and spins, including Fedora CoreOO, Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, etc.
• strzibny 5y ago
  No, Fedora is general purpose. Source: Fedora developer, previously employed at Red Hat as a Linux packager.
  • drran 5y ago
    Fedora works badly on Raspberry PI.