This article is for those of you who do not want to install a whole new operating system only to discover some technical details about the default installation like disk layout, packages included, software versions, and so on. Here we are going to review in several sections what is like to have a default installation of Fedora 39 Server using a real not virtual machine!
The kernel is 6.2.15 it detects successfully the Threadripper 1950X AMD and the system is stable (we booted in UEFI mode).
The installation procedure uses default options for all installation setups – Minimal network installation of Fedora 39 Server.
Software
With Fedora Server 39 you can have
- linux kernel – 6.5.10-300 (6.5.10-300.fc39.x86_64)
- System
- linux-firmware – version: 20231030, release: 20231030-1.fc39.
- libc – 2.38 (2.38-10.fc39)
- GNU GCC – 13.2.1 (13.2.1-4.fc39)
- OpenSSL – 3.1.1 (3.1.1-4.fc39) and 1.1.1q (1.1.1q-5.fc39)
- coreutils – 9.3 (9.3-4.fc39)
- yum – Depricated and replaced with dnf
- dnf – 4.18.0 (4.18.0-2.fc39). The dnf5 is available, too (5.1.5-1.fc39)
- rsyslog – 8.2310.0 (8.2310.0-1.fc39)
- NetworkManager – 1.44.2 (1.44.2-1.fc39)
- Servers
- Apache – 2.4.58 (2.4.58-1.fc39)
- Nginx – 1.24.0 (1.24.0-4.fc39)
- MySQL server – 8.0.34 (8.0.34-2.fc39)
- MariaDB server – 10.5.22 (10.5.22-1.fc39)
- PostgreSQL – 15.4 (15.4-1.fc39)
- Programming
- PHP – 8.2.12 (8.2.12-1.fc39)
- python – The default is 3.12.0 (3.12.0-1.fc39) and many more available – 3.13.0 (3.13.0~a1-1.fc39), 3.11.6 (3.11.6-1.fc39), 3.10.13 (3.10.13-1.fc39), 3.9.18 (3.9.18-1.fc39), 3.8.18 (3.8.18-1.fc39), 3.7.17 (3.7.17-3.fc39), 3.6.15 (3.6.15-20.fc39) and also includes the older 2.7.18 (2.7.18-35.fc39)
- perl – 5.38.0 (5.38.0-501.fc39)
- ruby – 3.2.2 (3.2.2-181.fc39)
- OpenJDK – the latest 21 – 21.0.0.0.35 (21.0.0.0.35-1.rolling.fc39) and also includes 17.0.8.0.7 (17.0.8.0.7-1.fc39), 11.0.20.0.8 (11.0.20.0.8-1.fc39) and 1.8.0.382.b05 (1.8.0.382.b05-2.fc39)
- Go – 1.21.3 (1.21.3-1.fc39)
- Rust – 1.73.0-1.fc39 (1.73.0-1.fc39)
- llvm – the latest 17.0.3 (17.0.3-1.fc39), 16.0.6 (16.0.6-5.fc39), 15.0.7 (15.0.7-4.fc39), 14.0.5 (14.0.5-6.fc39), 13.0.1 (13.0.1-5.fc39), 12.0.1 (12.0.1-9.fc39), 11.1.0 (11.1.0-11.fc39), 8.0.1 (8.0.1-5.fc39) and 7.0.1 (7.0.1-7.fc39.8)
- Subversion – 1.14.2 (1.14.2-20.fc39)
- Git – 2.41.0 (2.41.0-2.fc39)
Note: Not all of the above software comes installed by default. The versions above are valid as of November 2023, these are the minimum versions you get with Fedora Server 39 now, and updating it after the initial date may update some of the above packages with newer versions.
Installed packages are 682 occupying 1.7G space:. Note, this is Fedora Server Install, not minimal install. The server install includes the web console – cockpit version 254.
root@srv:~# dnf list installed|wc -l 682 root@srv:~# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora-root 15G 1.7G 14G 12% /