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.
Filed under: distros by Phil Paradis
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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 [...]
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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!
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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!
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Gentoo 2008.0 is now available for installation via the distro wizard for i386. Enjoy!
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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.
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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 [...]
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Ubuntu version 8.04 Hardy Heron is now available for installation via the distro wizard.
Existing installs can, of course, upgrade.
Filed under: distros by mikegrb
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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
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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
Filed under: distros by mikegrb
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