platform selection help

[chrisbr68 8]

Hi folks, I've been running emby on rhel for a year or two and it's worked perfectly.

 

I am rebuilding my server and I need to decide on the architecture. I am aware that rhel isn't on the list of supported platforms but it's worked well for me.

With that in mind I am selecting between rhel, fedora and docker on rhel.

I'm not super familiar with docker so I am a bit reluctant to choose that. I could use fedora but I want this to be as stable as possible and I don't want to be dealing with things that break or frequent upgrades. But then again rhel isnt officially supported.

I really like the linux cockpit integration with rhel or related distros as I can very easily control the updates and drives shares etc. It's not as good for ubuntu.

Please can anyone offer any guidance?

I'm looking for ease of use and importantly stability. This isn't a business but I have friends around the world who use it, in the past I used windows but I had so many problems so I don't want to return to headaches. I want it to be as much of set and forget as possible.

Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

@Q-Droidmay have some insight on this.

[Lessaj 467]

All the RPM based distros are basically the same and can even be switched between with certain tools. Nothing wrong with staying on RHEL. 

[chrisbr68 8]

2 minutes ago, Lessaj said:

All the RPM based distros are basically the same and can even be switched between with certain tools. Nothing wrong with staying on RHEL. 

Thanks that is helpful feedback. You should consider putting it into the install guide in that case as its not on the drop downs. Cheers.

[Q-Droid 989]

I think you can expect the Emby releases for Fedora and CentOS to remain binary compatible with RHEL. Another downstream option in that realm is Rocky Linux. You're most likely to run into problems with RHEL and Rocky if you change hardware to a new(er) CPU/iGPU while still running the base kernel for that release. Both of them also make it pretty easy to upgrade the kernel and for a non-enterprise installation it wouldn't be a problem.

 

[chrisbr68 8]

I'm rocking an i5 7500t so should be OK I would think? Thank you.

[Lessaj 467]

Yes that's and older cpu, not likely to have any code changes related to it. It's mostly for compatibility with new cpus when they come out, the base kernel might be a little older on RHEL and not get the kernel updates as soon as something like Fedora would, but there are repos for kernel-ml (mainline) that could be used in that case.