[ec2-beta] Planned differences between alestic <-> official ubuntu images?

[Eric Hammond]

Max:

Yes, the Ubuntu and Debian AMIs listed on http://alestic.com currently
default to Amazon's latest 2.6.21 kernel.  The known problems this
causes are:

- AppArmor is disabled
- XFS has problems on Ubuntu Intrepid (but works on Hardy)

Amazon EC2 does not allow you to run your own kernel which is one reason
the relationship that Canonical has developed with Amazon is so
exciting: We will soon have real, modern Ubuntu kernels to run on.  This
will be true for both the official images released by Canonical and
other images that folks care to build.

I was surprised that Ubuntu runs so well on older kernels, but I and
others have been very happy with it and have been using it in production
for a year.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Heinrich, Maximilian wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
> 
>>> But I’m wondering – what will be the main differences between the
>>> official ubuntu images and the alestic versions?
>> Didn't they yank out the ubuntu kernel and replace it with an old fedora
>> kernel in the alestic image? That's the main difference that comes to mind.
> 
> Hmmm...well - don't know about that - I didn't encounter any problems setting up several software packages, yet. But if this kernel-exchange is the case - what kind of problems I might run into later on? Or could anyone confirm or disprove this info?
> 
> Although I'm aware of the fact that this is kind of beta I'm planning to setup a base system I can replicate in the future so now I'm searching for the best solution. I've been using ec2 since fall 2007 but for now I always ran on amazon's standard images.
> 
> Greets - Max
> 
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