Voltalinux

As expetctable, after the big Pat released the Slackware 12.1 the voltalinux (10 time less famous) is out: release is now 2.1 (codename is Livorno)

It benefits of the new features of slackware: http and ftp install, new kernel, install on LVM and RAID, etc
Also comes the benefits from the new features of the pkgsrc port system versione 2008Q1: upgraded packages and a better management system.
Voltalinux comes, as usual, with more then 150 packages (compiled with the pkgsrc port system) intended for server use such as: postfix, exim, dovecot, clamav, pure-ftpd, bftpd, squid, mysql, postgresql, bind, maradns, etc.

Example: after install and reboot, mount you voltalinux cdrom, cd to /mnt/cdrom (or whatever you use as mountpoint)

# pkg_add rc.subr

# pkg_add postfix

#cp /usr/pkg/share/example/rc.d/ /etc/rc.d
# echo “postfix=YES”>> /etc/rc.local

#/etc/rc.d/postfix start

your mailserver should be running !

Voltalinux as usual is tracking slackware. Now is compiling packages from pkgsrc2008-Q1 and slackware-12.1-RC2. It works really smoothly: 121 packages properly compiled in 1 night.
Next release will benefit from Linux kernel 2.6.24 and addiction in pkgsrc such as the new pkg_install tool.

Bye
te0x