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Have been using Fedora 40 Silverblue for desktop at home.
Want to use it as Server at my workplace.
Wonder if I can do that!
Currently I use an accounting software(Server) for Work PC with file sharing and a printer for all network users. We have laptops and desktops all around premises(2 desktops, 3 laptops to be exact).
I have tried my accounting software under WINE and it works fine except the file sharing(network users need to write to other partition where files are kept).
So my setup is Accounting softare(Tally Prime 5.0) on windows drive and the Data on a different dedicated DATA drive.( I have 3 different drives, 1ssd for windows, 1ssd for DATA and 1hdd for other storage.)
Please guide me where do I look for all my needs.

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Added atomic-desktops, coreos, iot, server and removed silverblue

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While Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT might be more suited for servers, you can also use Fedora Silverblue as well, especially if you want to use applications via a remote desktop.

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I thought core-os was for containers specifically, could you actually use it for servers? Would there be a bunch of layering after the fact to make it suitable for that purpose?

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Although Fedora CoreOS is a container-focused operating system designed for clusters and optimized for Kubernetes, it also operates standalone and is great as a general-purpose server OS.

Fedora CoreOS keeps the base image as simple and small as possible for security and maintainability reasons. This is why you should generally prefer using podman containers over layering . Almost every software related to servers is now containerized. However, in some cases it is necessary to add software to the base OS itself. For example, drivers or VPN are potential candidates because they are more difficult to containerize.

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Does Fedora CoreOS also use rpm-ostree? Is the handling/usage similar to Fedora Silverblue? What new stuff I have to learn?

Is this a good intro book or massively outdated because written in 2017?

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You should probably start with the official Fedora CoreOS documentation: Fedora CoreOS Documentation :: Fedora Docs

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I’d recommend the tutorials. It gives you concrete steps you can run to “try it and learn” so hopefully you have a better idea when you’re done with that learning exercise.

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