server February 2019

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Proposal: Drop most optional packages from Server DVD
by Stephen Gallagher 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

For a long time, the Fedora Server Edition has provided a fairly lightweight default installation, but a fairly heavyweight DVD. This is because we opted to include a lot of infrastructure-related content on the disk, such as BIND, FreeIPA, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, among others. The reality these days is that this is probably more or less unnecessary. There's no such thing as a server that is not connected to a network and since we aren't shipping the entirety of the Fedora package collection on this disk, inevitably anyone installing from it is going to need to have access to package mirrors anyway. So I'd like to propose that we get rid of nearly the entirety of the <optionlist> section from comps.xml[1][2] and variants-fedora.xml[3]. The result will be a far smaller install DVD, less space wasted on the mirrors (both for the DVD and the install tree) and very little difference in user experience. Arguments against this have historically been that having it all on one disk is better for network-constrained environments to avoid downloading content multiple times. Realistically, however, I think this is generally going to be solved by local mirroring in most real-world scenarios. [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f30.xml.in [2] With the exception of the "server-hardware-support" and "guest-agents" which may be needed for proper installation, depending on the hardware. [3] https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/blob/master/f/variants-fedora.xml

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Cockpit 188 released
by Martin Pitt 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 188: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-188.html Summary: - Machines: Show Storage Volume user - Machines: Autostart configuration - Terminal: Themes and context menu - Storage: Responsive dialogs - Software Updates: Show three most recent updates You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 188 is available in Fedora 29: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-188-1.fc29 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/188 Take care, Martin Pitt

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Cloud/Server merge
by Matthew Miller 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Okay, we've talked about this but not actually done anything because everyone is busy. Here's my proposal for F30: not actually do anything different, but, we are redesigning the website, and I think we should consolidate Cloud into the Fedora Server section as a download/launch option. What do you think? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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