If I may, I think the issue is right there in the name: Fedora CoreOS. The Fedora name brings some expectations and it seems CoreOS, by its nature, can’t be at parity with the other Fedora flavors and that leads to confusion. I can attest that I was surprised when I learned Fedora CoreOS didn’t support cgroups v2 and that confused me; it’s Fedora, of course it would have the latest-n-greatest.
I used CoreOS before it bought by RH, and I could accept whatever limitations it had because there were no expectations. Here’s a specialized distro that does things in its own way. I’m guessing this is laughably not possible, but I’m going to suggest anyway that maybe it be renamed either back to simply “CoreOS” or something new like “Bowler” or whatever that indicates that it is its own special thing and expectations can be set accordingly. On 20 May 2021, at 2:24, Clement Verna wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 22:48, Joe Doss <j...@solidadmin.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 2:45 AM Clement Verna >>> <cve...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >>>> I think this is the fundamental difference here, Fedora CoreOS does >>>> not have a version number. It has 3 streams, stable, testing and >>>> next, these streams are based on a version of Fedora Linux but that >>>> should just be a detail that most end users should not have to care >>>> about. >> >> I disagree here. Fedora CoreOS has the Fedora name in it and it should >> have the same fundamental features and changes that ship with each >> Fedora release. To say it doesn't have a base version and that users >> shouldn't care about it is pretty dismissive. >> > > Sorry if that sounded dismissive, but that's really how I feel. I recognize > that I have a bias towards thinking that most FCOS users are similar to my > profile. > I am a developer and I don't have a strong interest in the OS, I just > expect it to work and provide me the tools needed to do my job. To me > that's the beauty of FCOS, I get a solid, tested OS that get automated > updates and just works, I honestly don't care to know which version of > Fedora Linux it is based on or which features it has. I want to spin-up an > instance make sure that my application works and forget about it. > I also understand that there are other type of users that will care much > more about the base OS than me:-). > > >> >>>> Another difference is that Fedora CoreOS has automatic updates and >>>> if we want our users to trust these automatic updates we need them >>>> to be rock solid. This leads to Fedora CoreOS being more >>>> conservative on how changes are rolled out to users, taking the >>>> example rolling out cgroups v2 in the Fedora 31 time frame would >>>> have broken all users that are using Docker to run their containers >>>> and this was not acceptable :-). >>>> >>>> If some users are getting confused and get curious about why there >>>> are these differences and learn more about how Fedora CoreOS works, >>>> that's a good thing IMO :-) >> >> Confusing and frustrating your users is a bad thing. >> > >> On 5/19/21 6:54 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> No. This is a cop-out and a bad answer. The reason this happened is >>> because Fedora CoreOS historically has not participated in the >>> development of Fedora Linux, including the Changes process, and >>> generally rolled back features instead of adapting with them during >>> the development cycle. >>> >>> It's not like making changes and breaking upgrades is acceptable in >>> Fedora Linux either. It's just that the Fedora CoreOS WG has not >>> participated in the main development process and rolled back changes >>> instead of adapting to them, which has frustrated pretty much >>> everyone. The containers team in particular was extremely unhappy to >>> find out cgroup v1 was still used in FCOS. I was pretty cheesed off >>> when I discovered the sqlite rpmdb feature was rolled back in FCOS. >>> >>> In general, I'm not pleased with how Fedora CoreOS does this. >>> Hopefully they will do better in the future. >> >> I'll echo Neal's sentiment here. This is a cop-out and bad answer. >> > >> It is frustrating to consume FCOS only to see features that are in the >> current release of Fedora are rolled back. Even in today's FCOS WG >> meeting I brought up adding in zswap to FCOS and it is shelved until >> Kubernetes adds for support swap enabled systems. >> >> The RHCOS and Openshift teams should be back porting these breaking >> changes, so FCOS can look to the future with Fedora. FCOS should not be >> shackled by limits imposed by RHCOS/Openshift/Kubernetes. >> >> Joe >> >> >> >> -- >> Joe Doss >> j...@solidadmin.com >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
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