Just read the news that Fedora released 37, with the (almost) latest Linux kernel 6.0.7. That’s very brave and new, I must try it!
I heard that you must upgrade your system for at most 9 months, and I think this is not a problem for me, I don’t have any severe business running on any server, all my servers are dev-only.
The software packager dnf has a very new repo of packages, e.g. for neovim I can just run dnf install neovim and it will install the latest one to my system. I can’t imagine when using Ubuntu.
packages installed #
- zsh
- neovim
- make cmake gcc-c++
- htop
- util-linux-user
After maybe 4 hours of using of the Fedora Desktop, I installed a server image instead to further check the difference from Ubuntu.
Fedora CoreOS(Dec-2022) #
When I was reviewing my cloud services and VM usage found that my AWS EC2 3 years Reserved Instances was about to expired, I didn’t use it as much as I expected, it’s a t3.small instance and the disk doesn’t come with the reserved plan hence I attached 16GB disk to is, the total cost is about $11/month and I mainly used it for my proxy service.
Since I am more comfortable with GCP now, so I will replace it with a GCP VM. The normal compute engine prices are similar since my requirements are very clear now: just a proxy server to serve my normal daytime usage. So I will go with a SPOT VM, which is so cheap and I don’t have anything to lose if it suddenly is deleted, and I only need it in the daytime.
It takes several hours to finalize a script like this, it’s mainly because CoreOS only accept ed25519 type ssh key, and you need to know the default username core.
VM_NAME=hysteria
ZONE=asia-east2-a
SSH_PUBKEY="core:ssh-ed25519 <pub-key>"
gcloud compute instances create $VM_NAME \
--provisioning-model=SPOT \
--instance-termination-action=DELETE \
--service-account [email protected] \
--scopes compute-ro,storage-ro,cloud-platform \
--image-project fedora-coreos-cloud \
--image-family fedora-coreos-stable \
--tags http-server,hysteria \
--metadata=ssh-keys="${SSH_PUBKEY}" \
--machine-type e2-small \
--zone $ZONE
gcloud dns record-sets update <proxy-domain> \
--rrdatas=<VM_PUBLIC_IP> \
--type=A --ttl=120 \
--zone=myproject
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 core@<proxy-domain>
But after login in and trying to install tools with dnf or yum, just released that both are not installed and that is intended. But it has docker installed! Now I just need the core user to use docker by sudo usermod -aG docker $USER and I can almost do anything on it.