In the upgrade from f29 to f30 I lost ownCloud, which is not supported with the version of php shipped with f30. While a pain I could live with that.
However in the upgrade from f30 to f31, while it was a painless upgrade, yet more essential tools are no longer supported.
The one that is a show-stopper for me is that Docker is not supported under f31 due to changes in cgroups. This was a deliberate choice my the Fedora release team documented at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1746355. Additionally the workaround of adjusting kernel parameters in /etc/sysconfig/grub does not work for me, so no Docker.
Looks like podman is supported for containers (uses runc instead of the docker daemon) but that is a huge change in workflow and results in no global overview of what containers are running.
Fedora is losing relevance.
* Linux is the kernel
* a working unix operating system (that many call Linux) is the kernel plus GNU utilities
* a useable system is a working OS plus useful utilities that enable work to be done
As each release of Fedora causes the loss of more useful (even essential) utilities it?s relevance as a viable linux solution decreases.
At this point, due to the additional tools provided by rpmfusion, it is still a viable Desktop only solution, although useful tools are being dropped from there also; for example I had to replace basketnotes with cherrytree when basketnotes was dropped from the repositories, and now cherrytree is also gone in f31, leaving me no choice but to keep my desktop and laptop on f30.
But Fedora is no longer suitable as a server operating system, as more and more essential tools will be dropped over time.
The server I upgraded to f31 has been reverted to f30 so the containers I use can keep running while I embark on my next large project, migrating a web server that has been running on fedora since fedora-core-3 onto a CentOS environment; as I need a working server environment that is stable, or at least does not break software as often as the Fedora quick release cycle does.
