New Xen Linux Distribution 30
f5hacka writes "Four students at Clarkson University developed a new
linux distribution based on the Xen kernel. The distribution is called Xenophilia. Xenophilia is a derivative of Debian Linux and uses the new Debian installer to install its packages. Its homepage is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/.
The distribution is available for download at http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenop hilia/"
Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:3, Interesting)
More power to them. I personally use MacOS X and FreeBSD daily. I consider setting up a Linux machine from time to time (okay mods, I'm not setting up flamebait here), but it gets to be a real turnoff finding a more or less 'standard' distro that isn't a pain to set up. FreeBSD isn't elegant at all (PC-BSD [pcbsd.org] seems to be stepping up to fill that need nicely), but at least it's the devil I know (pun intended).
Gentoo and/or Debian based systems at least seem to be the way to go these days, but the every-increasing number of distros bugs me. Don't want to pick a distro only to find it discontinued and have to load a new one.
Read the *other* fine article. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Read the *other* fine article. (Score:5, Informative)
Bzzt. There is no mention of the "Xen kernel" in the articles cited, so it's unclear as to which Fucking Article you're talking about.
chet@chet:~$ links -dump http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ [cam.ac.uk] | grep -i kernel
chet@chet:~$ links -dump http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/ [clarkson.edu] | grep -i kernel
chet@chet:~$
Xen is a layer which allows the user to boot multiple operating systems at the same time. It happens to include modifications to the Linux kernel which allow the user to do virtualization stuff that may seem "New and Cool" to the average X86 user who hasn't heard of virtual machines, but is more like "Old and Busted" for those who've heard of IBM outside of the SCO case.
According to some article sponsored by IBM [techtarget.com]:
More informative than the links provided is the Xen user documentation [cam.ac.uk], especially sections 2.3.3, 2.4.1, and most of 3.
A good start for reading about the history of VM would be to Google for "IBM VM".
Re:Read the *other* fine article. (Score:5, Informative)
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Evan
Fedora? (Score:2)
Re:Fedora? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Why bother? (Score:2)
The fact that four guys from some place I never heard of did it, just isn't enough motivation.
Re:Read the *other* fine article. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:2)
Then why not go with Debian and/or Gentoo? They've both been around quite a while and have thriving userbases, so I doubt either will be discontinued in the near future. Debian's new installer makes setup a breeze, and Gentoo wasn't too bad to install the last time I did it (and that was q
Re:Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:2)
What exactly isn't elegant about FreeBSD? The ports system, the separation of the base system from the rest of the OS, the nice new RC scripts are all things I find MORE elegant about FreeBSD over Linux.
It may not look pretty (omg it doesn't have a pretty splash screen to hide all those nasty boot messages halp!!1111), but, not elegant?
As far as too many Linux distros, I agree 128%.
Re:Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:2)
Re:Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:2)
Re:Wow. I RTFA and it didn't matter... (Score:2, Informative)
Xenophilia isnt so much a new distribution, as it is a hacked set of debian installer packages that replace the kernel installation stages with a new set of stages that install and configure the xen hypervisor and the xen kernel for domain 0. All the other packages are identical to the
Just missed ... (Score:2)
Re:Just missed ... (Score:1)
Ed - debian installer hacker for xenophilia
the obvious question here is... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:the obvious question here is... (Score:2)
Re:the obvious question here is... (Score:2)
Re:the obvious question here is... (Score:2, Informative)
In the past an experimental port of windows was made to an older version of xen, but as far as i can tell it was done under a research liscense from microsoft and cant be released.
In xen 3, they are planning on having support not only for running modified guest domains, but also running
ARG! (Score:2)
So, Slashdot yells "Linux" and we all reflexively click the link? Since just being a (new) Linux distro is the only criteria for a story, doesn't fairness really means Slashdot should post links to every active Linux Distribution that hasn't had a story on Slashdot?
Why not create a bash script to grab a distro name and url per hour from
Re:ARG! (Score:1)
Re:ARG! (Score:2)
I think being the Father of a 3 year old results in seeing so many kids movies so many time you get brain damage.
Uhm, what were we talking about?
Re:ARG! (Score:1)
It would be interesting to study if the brain damage from seeing them too many times is enough to offset the memory formation from seeing them so many times.. *sigh*
... or NetBSD (Score:4, Interesting)
Some links:
* What does Xen look like - a screenshot:
http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/hubertf-x
* Installation:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html [netbsd.org]
* General information on NetBSD/Xen:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ [netbsd.org]
* Live CD with Debian, NetBSD and FreeBSD:
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html#20050421_00
* Benchmarking:
http://www.iki.fi/kuparine/comp/xendom0/xendom0.h
- Hubert