https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/9639ab28-de56-4dd1-8d1a-d57763cf27b0 Plenty of sysadmins will tell you Fedora is a great desktop and the wrong choice for a server. Is that still true, or is it a reputation Fedora hasn't outgrown? This week it's just the two of us, and we put the question to ourselves. We get into where the hesitation actually comes from, what Fedora Server is and who it's for, and whether bootc changes the math when the OS is an image you build and roll back. Noah makes the case that the thing standing between Fedora and a production server isn't technical at all, it's a path of escalation. Eric's twelve-container home lab and Noah's experience shipping Fedora inside commercial appliances end up on opposite sides of the same question. We also get thoroughly off topic for a few minutes while Noah explains why ad targeting feels like your phone is listening to you, and why it isn't. Eric calls it out on air. We left it in. No guest this week. Just the two of us arguing in good faith and mostly landing on "it depends." So we want your answer. Would you run Fedora on a server, and why or why not? Bonus points if you have actually done it in production. 🔗 Episode Resources Fedora Server: https://fedoraproject.org/server/, Fedora Server documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/, Fedora bootc documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/, FP054 BootC in the Wild: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/podcast/tickets/wiki/FP054%3A-BootC-in-the-Wild, FP062 What is Hummingbird: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/podcast/tickets/wiki/FP062-What-is-Hummingbird, RFC 1149, IP over Avian Carriers, because Noah was right: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149, 🔖 Chapters 00:00 Would you run Fedora on a server? 01:05 The Hendricks data center rebuild 06:39 Is Fedora's server reputation out of date? 08:17 CentOS Stream, RHEL, and the July challenge 11:31 Fedora bootc and a nightly image pipeline 17:14 What does stability really mean? 24:46 Appliances and always-connected systems 27:27 Side path, how ad targeting actually works 30:08 Fedora 45 and the support path 34:32 Nine months of support and the live upgrade idea 37:59 Debian, escalation, and vendor support 44:17 Outro 🎬 New to Fedora? Get Started Here: https://fedoraproject.org/ 🎙️ Follow the Fedora Podcast: https://podcast.fedoraproject.org 💬 Join the Conversation: https://matrix.to/#/#podcast:fedoraproject.org 🌐 Become Part of the Fedora community: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ 📱 Connect with Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks: https://linktr.ee/itguyeric 📱 Connect with Noah Chelliah (Kernellinux): https://noahc.us/about #fedora #linux #sysadmin #homelab #bootc Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:01:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.linuxrocks.online https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/9639ab28-de56-4dd1-8d1a-d57763cf27b0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.