Fedora Server 42 Is Performing Well On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"
Fedora Server 42 is on Python 3.13 and Fedora 41 had already squeezed in Python 3.13 when it was very fresh, thus not much change from F41-to-F42.
Fedora Server 42 ships PHP 8.4 although this release didn't see as much of a performance improvement as some of the prior PHP7 and PHP8 releases.
On a geometric mean for the wide variety of benchmarks conducted for this article, Fedora Server 42 was slightly faster than an updated Fedora Server 41 install and then right behind Ubuntu 25.04 as the fastest Linux distribution on this AMD EPYC 9005 series server for those Linux distributions benchmarked today. An even larger spring 2025 Linux distribution round-up on this AMD EPYC 9755 2P server is currently being worked on at Phoronix.
Fedora 42 overall has shaped up very nicely for both desktop/workstation/laptop and server uses. Fedora 42 is worth checking out for those wanting to be on a leading-edge Linux distribution. While Fedora Linux doesn't carry the enterprise support of RHEL, it's worth exploring particularly for HPC users with some performance benefits thanks to GCC 15 and other upgrades for those deploying on modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC servers.
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