Hi All,

For my current Linode I use the Slackware 10.0 small distribution, but I removed a bunch of useless packages (i.e. for manipulating hardware) and then I added what I need for my server.

Slackware 10.2 has recently been released. It's likely to be the last of the 10.* line, and the last using a 2.4 kernel by default. It is very stable and suitable for servers.

I'm wondering what it takes to build a new distribution for Linode. I can easily build a small stock Slackware 10.2 system that doesn't have useless (in the UML world) packages. What I don't know are the steps that Caker or whoever goes through to make the system configuration be Linode/UML friendly. Can someone tell me what in the configuration must be changed so it works under Linode/UML.

I'll do the work myself for my Linode. But, it would also be nice to see a 10.2 offering on Linode.

TIA,

-C

Hello,

You can find the required mods here:

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Cu ... stribution

I appreciate the offer, however it would be best if you could outline the stetps you take upgrading/creating the disk image. Its pretty much a requirement that we have to make the disk images ourselves -- you never know what someone might have snuck into a disk image, knowingly or otherwise.

Thanks again,
-Chris

Why not use slackpkg to automatically update the packages you have installed? Never had a problem with it.

Chris, please give us an update on when Slackware 10.2 will be made available.

Thanks

I also would like to have slackware 10.2 as a distro to choose from.

Heh, I use slack too, but it doesn't much matter to me right now. I do package upgrades rather than start over. :)

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I use slack too, and I wonder, just out of curiosity and for the fun of it, how many of linodes are having slack distro , or , better, a statistics of each distro that is running right now in linode's world.

my bet is on slack

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