Christopher Aker

Podcast: The Return of User-Mode Linux [url=http://www.virtual-strategy.com/]Virtual Strategy Magazine[/url] speaks with Jeff Dike, author and maintainer of User-Mode Linux and Christopher Aker, president of Linode, a hosting company that offers virtual machines running on UML. Article: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/article/articleview/1874/1/64/ MP3: http://virtual-strategy.com/podcasts/2007-02-13_UML_Linode.mp3 I’ll provide a transcript in the next few days for those that requested it. -Chris

I’m pleased to announce that in addition to Fremont, CA and Dallas, TX datacenters, we now have machines located in Atlanta, GA. There are a few more details on the “[url=https://www.linode.com/products/network.cfm]Our Network[/url]” page. For latency comparison, you can ping 64.22.71.1 . Please open a support ticket if you’re interested in migrating to that datacenter. -Chris

Dear Linode.com Members, We’re planning some big upgrades in the very near future, but here’s something to hold you over until then — an 28% RAM increase! Stay tuned for the big announcement! In the meantime: Linode 100 becomes [b]Linode 128[/b] Linode 150 becomes [b]Linode 192[/b] Linode 200 becomes [b]Linode 256[/b] Linode 300 becomes [b]Linode […]

33% Disk Space added to all Plans, Reduced Disk Space Cost[/size] [b]Disk Space Cost reduced[/b] We’ve lowered the price of extra hard disk space to $2/month per GiB. [b]Standard plans now include:[/b] Linode 100 w/ 4096 MB (4 GB) Linode 150 w/ 6144 MB (6 GB) Linode 200 w/ 8192 MB (8 GB) Linode 300 […]

I’ve just deployed a Gentoo 2006.1 template filesystem. Available now through the Distro Wizard. Enjoy! -Chris

I’m very pleased to announce that Tom Asaro has joined Linode’s team. Tom has spent the past 8 years as the IT Manager for one of the two largest framing contractors in the United States and its subsidiary, a tourism firm that furnishes high end trips throughout Asia. Part of his responsibilities included building and […]

Ubuntu 6.06 now available through the Distro Wizard. [url=http://www.ubuntulinux.org/][img]https://www.linode.com/images/logos/ubuntu_logo.png[/img][/url] Installed pacakges… [code]adduser apt apt-utils aptitude base-files base-passwd bash belocs-locales-bin bind9-host bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox-initramfs bzip2 console-common console-data console-tools coreutils cpio cramfsprogs cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common diff discover1 discover1-data dmsetup dnsutils dosfstools dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs ed eject fdutils file findutils ftp gcc-3.3-base gcc-4.0-base […]

Dear Linode.com Members, This past Friday (2006-06-16) marked Linode’s three year anniversary, and I just wanted to say, on behalf of Mike and myself, a big old THANKS to all of you for your business and continued support. As such, I feel the time is right to upgrade the plans to include an additional 25% […]

Arch Linux 0.7.1 is now available through your local distribution wizard. [img]http://www.archlinux.org/logos/sml-archstar.jpg[/img] http://www.archlinux.org/ Enjoy, -Chris

Ryan Finnie has updated Finnix to version 87.0. I’ve updated all the hosts’ [url=https://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1971]Finnix Recovery Distributions[/url] to this latest version. [b]How to utilize Finnix in our environment[/b] 1) Create an empty Configuration Profile (Configurations sub-tab, click “Create a new Configuration Profile”) 2) Select “Recovery – Finnix (kernel)” for the kernel 3) Select “Recovery – Finnix […]

Ubuntu 5.10 now available through the Distro Wizard. [url=http://www.ubuntulinux.org/][img]https://www.linode.com/images/logos/ubuntu_logo.png[/img][/url] [code]adduser alsa-base apt apt-utils aptitude base-config base-files base-passwd bash bind9-host bsdmainutils bsdutils bzip2 console-common console-data console-tools coreutils cpio cramfsprogs cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common diff discover1 discover1-data dmsetup dnsutils dosfstools dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs ed eject evms evms-ncurses fdutils file findutils ftp gcc-3.3-base gcc-4.0-base […]

I’ve added support to the LPM that allows you to utilize Finnix as a recovery/rescue/bootstrap distribution. It occupies none of your disk space, autoconfigures your network interface and swap files, and contains enough admin utilities to get just about anything done. To quote the Finnix website: Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) […]