Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

October 30, 2009 1:50 pm

We’re pleased to announce support for Ubuntu 9.10 server images on Linodes. As the newest release in the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems, this version offers many new features. You may deploy Ubuntu 9.10 from the Linode Manager dashboard.

New kernels, fixed vulnerabilities

August 17, 2009 2:26 pm

We’ve released five new kernels which contain the fix for the recently announced Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2009-2692).  The following kernels are NOT vulnerable:
2.6.18.8-linode19 (Latest 2.6 Stable)
2.6.30.5-linode20
2.6.18.8-x86_64-linode7 (Latest 2.6 Stable – x86_64)
2.6.30.5-x86_64-linode8
2.6.23.17-linode44 (for UML)
Please check the output of “uname -r” from within your Linode.  If you’re not running one of the kernels above [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

April 23, 2009 1:52 pm

We’ve cooked up Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty templates fresh from the folks over at the Ubuntu project.  Available now from the Distribution Wizard for both i386 and x86_64.  Enjoy!

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!

Gentoo 2008.0

March 20, 2009 10:15 pm

Gentoo 2008.0 is now available for installation via the distro wizard for i386. Enjoy!

Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

February 20, 2009 3:06 pm

Debian 5.0 (codenamed “Lenny”) is now available for installation via the distro wizard for both i386 and x86_64.
If you’ve got a previous version of Debian installed, you can check the Debian documentation to find out how to upgrade.

Custom kernels with pv-grub

December 23, 2008 1:12 pm

It’s now possible to boot custom kernels and even alternate operating systems under your Linode instance by the use of pv-grub — a port of the GRUB bootloader into the Xen mini-os kernel.  Essentially, your Linode boots into the pv-grub kernel, looks for your menu.lst and associated kernel files, and then executes your kernel.
Although this [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

April 24, 2008 4:14 pm

Ubuntu version 8.04 Hardy Heron is now available for installation via the distro wizard.
Existing installs can, of course, upgrade.

Fedora Core 8

November 9, 2007 11:44 pm

Fedora Core 8 is available for install from the distro wizard.
I’m not a Fedora user so feel free to point out any deficiencies in the template

Arch Linux 2007.08

October 30, 2007 9:50 am

Arch Linux 2007.08 is available for install from the distro wizard.
I’m not an Arch user so feel free to point out any deficiencies in the template


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