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Gentoo 2008.0 x86_64 and Slackware 12.2

April 4, 2009 8:08 pm

Tonight we release two new images for the distro wizard:

Gentoo 2008.0 x86_64
This is the same build as the x86 image, but for 64-bit

Slackware 12.2
Basically the same as the 12.0 build with updated packages

Enjoy them!

Filed under: distros by irgeek

David Steele, on April 4th, 2009 at 11:47 pm Said:

When will we expect to have CentOS 5.3 available for install through the “distro” manager?
Installing Gentoo 2008.0 amd64 on a Linode VPS | Brandon's Blog, on April 5th, 2009 at 10:34 am Said:

[...] a fresh Gentoo 2008.0 amd64 image on my new Linode! Update: On April 4 2009, Linode released a Gentoo 2008.0 x86_64 image, which somewhat obsoletes this post. I haven’t tried it, but if your looking to try [...]
peter, on April 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pm Said:

nice! i’ll use this for my slack 12.2 installs
Jay, on April 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pm Said:

Awesome, looking forward to seeing BSD in action as well.