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Fedora 17 – Beefy Miracle

May 31, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
We’re happy to announce the availability of Fedora 17 (release notes) for deployment within the Linode Manager. This release will be supported by the Fedora Project until one month after the release of Fedora 19 (approximately 13 months). For instructions on how to deploy Fedora 17 on your Linode, you may reference our documentation in […]
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Precise Pangolin

Apr 26, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (release notes) for deployment in the Linode Manager. This is a long-term support (LTS) release by Canonical, which means the operating system will receive support until April of 2017. For help deploying a distribution in the Linode Manager, you can reference our documentation in the Linode […]
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CentOS 6.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, and Gentoo

Apr 17, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
We’re happy to announce the availability of the following distributions for deployment in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors: CentOS 6.2 (release notes) Fedora 16 (release notes) openSUSE 12.1 (release notes) In addition to providing these new distributions for deployment, we’ve updated our 32-bit and 64-bit Gentoo images to provide more up-to-date packages at the time of […]
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Spring Conferences 2012

Mar 28, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
Over the last few weeks, Linode has sponsored and attended several open source conferences. POSSCON – March 28-29 This week we’re at POSSCON in Columbia, SC. The conference’s aim is to provide affordable access to quality open source education in the southeast U.S. Our very own Matt Cone will be giving a talk about his […]
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Native IPv6 Now Available in All Locations

Feb 28, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
With the World IPv6 Launch coming up on June 6th, 2012, we’ve been working hard to make IPv6 available to all Linode customers so they can participate. We’re happy to announce that IPv6 is now available in all six of our locations across the world! If you’d like to enable IPv6 for your existing Linode, just navigate to […]
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IPv6 Now Available in London and Atlanta

Dec 20, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
As part of our ongoing efforts to support IPv6 across all of our locations, we are happy to announce that native IPv6 is now available in London and Atlanta. Existing Linodes can enable IPv6 simply by clicking “Enable IPv6” on the Remote Access tab of the Linode Manager. New Linodes and Linodes migrating into a facility […]
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Ubuntu 11.10 – Oneiric Ocelot

Oct 14, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” (release notes) is now available for deployment in the Linode Manager. For help getting started with deploying a distribution, we’ve written a deployment guide that will prove useful. If you wish to upgrade from an older distribution, we’ve written a guide for that process as well. Canonical, as always, will support Ubuntu 11.10 for only 18 […]
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Fedora 15

May 26, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 15 for both 32 and 64 bit architectures. To get started with this release, simply follow the instructions in our deployment guide. Users of older versions may wish to review Fedora’s instructions for upgrading with yum. Enjoy! Enjoy!
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Ubuntu 11.04 – Natty Narwhal

Apr 28, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” for both 32 and 64 bit architectures. To get started with this release, simply follow the instructions in our deployment guide. Users of older versions may wish to review our Ubuntu 11.04 upgrade instructions. Enjoy! Please note that Canonical will only be providing support […]
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openSUSE 11.4

Mar 10, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of openSUSE 11.4 for both 32 and 64 bit architectures. This release features Apache 2.2.17, nginx 0.8.54, PostgreSQL 9.0.3, and much more. You can learn more about new features in this release in the openSUSE 11.4 product highlights. Users of older versions may wish to review the openSUSE […]
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Debian 6 – Squeeze

Feb 8, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
We’re delighted to announce the availability of Debian 6 (code named “Squeeze”) for both 32 and 64 bit architectures through our deployment wizard. You can learn more about this release in Debian’s release announcement. If you’re interested in upgrading a Debian 5 (Lenny) system to this release, please review our Debian 6 upgrade guide in […]
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Linode Library Turns One

Jul 30, 2010
by The Linode Security Team
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Linode Library! Over the last twelve months, our documentation team has published over three hundred guides on server administration topics, ranging from basic Linux administration to high availability server configurations, and has made the articles available to anyone who would like to use them. Our mission remains […]
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