I'm kinda amazed by Fedora Server at this point. +1 for recommendation.
On 1/5/21 12:25 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hi, > > Is Fedora a rolling release so to speak? I remember they used to call fedora > the bleeding edge distro not really geared for production environments is > that still accurate. I have only used it as a work station desktop with KDE > installed. > > Regards, > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: WireGuard <wireguard-boun...@lists.zx2c4.com> On Behalf Of Jeffrey > Walton > Sent: 04 January 2021 22:55 > To: Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> > Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com> > Subject: Re: Wireguard not available for CentOS Stream > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:48 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:24 AM Joe Doss <j...@solidadmin.com> wrote: >>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jdoss/wireguard/ >>> >>> The official DKMS install method for CentOS has a Stream repo >>> enabled. It should work fine. Let us know if you have any issues. >> It's actually presently broken. I've fixed it in the master branch with: >> https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux-compat/commit/?id=f7f55464a156e1 >> 181fa76d9c7e2fc0d495f2357e >> >> But Red Hat still has not fixed other bugs that will enable our CI to >> continue, and I won't release for RHEL alone until the CI is green. >> You can cherry pick that into your dkms package if you need. I wrote >> Red Hat a patch and sent it, but there's been no updated kernel yet. >> >> More generally, I'm on the fence about how much I actually want to >> support CentOS Stream. CentOS non-Stream is annoying, because it's >> developed behind closed doors and is extremely slow to fix things, but >> at least the changes are gradual and it's easy to keep up with, by >> virtue of rarely changing. In contrast, CentOS Stream is fast moving, >> and extremely unstable, with builds frequently breaking. This would be >> fine and I would prefer it, since it means we can in theory get things >> fixed reasonably fast, but actually, Stream is still developed behind >> closed doors, with no visibility about what's going on, no >> communication from RH on when fixes are coming out, no regular or >> reliable release schedule, no releases for months sometimes, and just >> a bugzilla blackbox that forces all reports to be private/secret. So, >> unstable+secretive development makes developing for CentOS Stream >> nearly as fun as developing for macOS, which is to say, not very fun. > From an admin and developer perspective I find Fedora Server a real gem. > Speaking from experience, I would much rather work on Fedora than CentOS or > Red Hat. Fedora Server comes with the latest stable tools and does not need > things like Software Collections (SCL) to get a modern Apache, Python or PHP. > > Every year or so Fedora Server needs a DNF System Upgrade > (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/), > which is like a Ubuntu dist-upgrade. I've not had one go bad since I started > using it back around F12 or F15. > > If Wireguard needs to make a Red Hat-family recommendation, I think it would > be wise to consider Fedora Server. > > Jeff