On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
My name is Justin and I mostly hang around with the Community Operations (CommOps) team.
I was hoping to follow up on an old discussion started at the 2015-11-10 meeting about a
minimal image being provided for Fedora.
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/serversig/serversig.2015-11-10-16...
According to the logs, it appears that the consensus was to focus on the server as its
own platform, even if it was not the most minimal installation possible. Another Fedora
contributor started drafting an article for this back in mid-November in the Fedora
Community Blog, but it was never completed. I was hoping to do a little follow-up to see
where that discussion was now and if anyone could provide me with information about if a
minimal installation will be available in the future or if things will just continue like
they always have.
It seems like this might still be a hot discussion topic, so if there have been any
recent changes, I would like to publish an update about where things are on the Community
Blog. Hopefully someone can share some new info with me about this. Thanks!
Somewhat better than a tangent, Fedora Cloud Atomic might be what
you're after. It's quite minimal. There are several images available
for VM use, and an ISO using Anaconda for installation to baremetal
(or VM). It's a different deployment/update model (uses rpm-ostree,
not dnf or packagekit) though, and depends heavily on Docker
containers to add functionality.
I actually would like to see either Fedora Cloud or Fedora Server
offer an "atomic" (rpm-ostree) product that isn't as minimal as the
current Cloud offering. On baremetal there's a lot of hardware related
stuff that's not available and can be finicky to get it working in a
container (hdparm, iotop, smartmontools, cryptsetup, firmware blobs,
ability to run newer kernels than what's in the currently available
tree, etc.) But that's approaching digression.
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Chris Murphy