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Some questions about fedora (self.linux)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by HumanPerson to c/[email protected]

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Hello. These questions are self-hosting related, but I feel they do partially belong here as they are also about fedora linux in general. I have a server which is currently running Debian. It has an arc GPU, and no matter what I do, video encoding refuses to work. I was thinking I might move it to Fedora, but have some questions first.

How are Fedora's updates? I believe they are about once a year, so how is it to switch between versions? I can deal with annual maintenance, but don't want weird issues causing downtime.
Also about updates, how should I do auto updates on fedora?
I am currently on apparmor. I know seLinux has more features, but I have also heard that it can be annoying to deal with.
I mentioned the arc GPU. Has anyone managed to get video encoding working on it on fedora? If so how?

Edit: also, how is it to move a raid over. It is mdadm raid 5 with ext4. It is VERY important that nothing happens to the data, unfortunately I have not yet implemented a backup, although I do intend to soon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I just moved the other day with an arc from fedora to ubuntu because i couldn't manage to get hw encoding with jellyfin and podman. It ran without issues on ubuntu with docker. In case you manage to get it working, ping me, I'd love to move back to fedora and podman. Might have been podman problems all along.

I never had weird issues with fedora. Updating is seemless.

You just have to know what you do with selinux. With containers, you have to know that you have to append :z or :Z to the path you're passing to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can of course use both Docker and Podman on either Fedora or Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, but never change a running system. I'll go back to podman in a year or two but for now I'm happy that it works as is. It took me way too long and within a year, I'll have forgotten how difficult it was.

It's important that you only use one of both and not both on one system