Voltalinux

The new release of Voltalinux 2.2 is in BETA. Codename Civitavecchia.

Based as usual on the rock-solid slackware-12.2 (thanks Pat !) and the port system pkgsrc-2008Q3 from the NetBSD project (thanks to the team).

The kernel is  2.6.27.7 with its huge driver support.
Voltalinux is intended FOR SERVER, no graphical front-end is ready.
The base system has very low disk consumpion (250 MB) and is usefull as develop or test system (for example in a virtual system).
As usual many precompiled packages are provided usually 2 alternatives for server use: one full and big and the other small, fast and easy.

Adding packages software is easy as: pkg_add dovecot.tgz

Happy voltalinuxing

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 !