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Debian 4.0 Etch and Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn are now available for installation via the distro wizard. Existing installs can, of course, be upgraded via apt.

I’ve updated our Fedora distro to FC6. I’m pretty sure this distro requires a 2.6 kernel (which new deployments now default to). Let me know how it goes. Thanks, -Chris

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

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 […]

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”) […]

Updated the Debian Distribution to latest stable (Sarge). -Chris

In the spirit of the various Planet based RSS aggregators comes [url=https://www.linode.com/planet/]Planet Linode[/url]. For an example of some other Planet sites, check out [url=http://planet.debian.org/]Planet Debian[/url], [url=http://planet.gnome.org]Planet Gnome[/url], and [url=http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/]Planet Ubuntu[/url]. Any Linode customer is welcome to have their blog added to the [url=https://www.linode.com/planet/]Planet Linode[/url] site. To have your blog listed, please open a Support Ticket […]

New feature in the LPM: Filesystem Helpers [b]What is it?[/b] Currently, the only helper that’s been implemented is “Disable updatedb”, which disables any cron jobs that run the updatedb command. This should help, if not eliminate, the high nightly load averages experienced on the hosts when a number of Linodes run updatedb at the same […]

Brought Gentoo up to date, to 2005.0 profile. Please let me know if I missed anything. -Chris