Being the first guide of this kind, I’d like to talk about a fresh experience I just had with this server. I was running an unusual setup: two disks, one of which contained the OS on a 40Gb partition, and a ZFS pool where I mounted the home partition, libvirt folder etc (960Gb + 1Tb on second disk). The server didn’t have any backups, so in case of fatal failure of the disk containing...
Two years later
Hi all! It’s been more than two years since the last post.Some of you may have thought the project was dead. Well, it was in fact suspended.There are multiple reasons, the top one being the lack of time to properly follow the project. It takes a while to build and mantain the releases and the process is not error-free at all (rather, quite the opposite). Furthermore, for some time the...
New release: 2011-03-06
Hi all! The new release if finally out! It’s been almost an year since the latest release. The long time since the last update brings some interesting news for you: kernel 2.6.37.2 with reiser4 patchesgcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r1, linux-headers-2.6.36.1NTFS kernel module has been disabled in favor of external ntfs3g to avoid conflicts (ntfs3g has much much wider NTFS support than in-kernel...
Awaiting…
Hi all! Four months have passed since last update, I shall shortly summarize what happened during this time: a lot of updates to the server: kernel -> 2.6.32 + grsec, glibc 2.11, gcc 4.4now running on ~amd64 gentooremoval of a lot of cruft from the server: unused users, applications, databases, configuration files etcshifted all partitions to XFS filesystem to allow much lesser fragmentation...
Random updates
Hi all! First of all sorry for the long absence, it’s been a very busy month.Anyway, I’ve got a bunch of news: worked on automatic stage rebuilding, all should work as expected. You will find the stages in experimental FTP directory (now building new stages for i686, later for amd64). Please note that those releases include GCC 4.4.x (currently 4.4.1) without graphite deps...
Grand Opening
Well well, after a lot of time spent learning Joomla, Apache, MySQL and configuring them, I’m proud to annouce the opening of a semi-definitive site.
The main section, dedicated to my liveCDs, is ready. The other ones (being only “Scripts” right now) are still work in progress. Stay tuned for news, and update your bookmarks.