December 15th, 2009

Ready, Set, Rebuild

As some of you may have already noticed, there are a few new images quietly making their way into the SliceManager.

Our operations team has been working extremely hard to bring you the latest and greatest images out there for your slice.

Today, we introduced the following base images in the SliceManager for new builds and rebuilds:

  • Gentoo 10.1
  • Fedora 12
  • RHEL 5.4

Please note that RHEL 5.4 is coupled with a new kernel. Therefore, if you decide to upgrade your previous RHEL installation through the command line, you will need to update your kernel in the SliceManager as well. If you rebuild or build a new slice using RHEL 5.4, it will automatically install the new kernel for you.

If you encounter any issues with either of these images, please shoot us an email at support@slicehost.com or swing by chat to let us know.

Additionally, please be aware that Fedora 10 will be removed from the SliceManager in two weeks time. Therefore, you will not be able to build any new images or rebuild a slice using our base Fedora 10 image after this time.

Posted by Mark Filed in

2 Comments

  1. January 5th, 2010 at 04:37 PM Tyler

    Why disable/remove the older images? It stands to reason (in my limited experience) that if something works for someone, why not leave it around, if the only cost is the storage space for that image? The work has already been done, and if someone has standardized (or simply has no desire to upgrade/change) on an image, so once again, why remove them? It may make sense to put them into an “archive” list or some such thing, so the main list of images isn’t over-flowing with images that are rarely used… just my $0.02 worth anyways.

  2. January 5th, 2010 at 09:03 PM PickledOnion

    Hi Tyler,

    One of the reasons is that when an image is no longer supported by the parent distribution, it will receive no security updates, etc.

    It is difficult presenting an image that is known to have vulnerabilities and that will never be patched by the parent distro.

    Not all users may be aware of lack of official support (from the distro creator) for the older images and opening themselves up for potential exploitation.

    Also note you can take a backup of your Slice and either restore or create a new Slice from it at anytime. Your backup snapshot distrubution is not contingent on the base (minimal) images offered by us.

    HTH

    Paul

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