Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

Give or take a couple of weeks, it’s been 12 months since I resigned from Gentoo.  At the time, I said that I was looking to continue my work on the Seeds project “downstream” of Gentoo.  I’m now ready to do that.

Seed Linux, hosted on Google Code, is the official successor to Gentoo Seeds project that I started during my time at Gentoo.  At the moment, there’s an embryonic overlay and wiki, and a handy script to build a Seed Linux Xen VM from scratch (tested on CentOS 5) - and four basic seeds for x86:

• portage-server is a simple local rsync server seed for the Portage tree, to save your Seeds having to sync their trees from the Net all the time.
• file-server is a very simple Samba server for running on a home or office file server.
• lamp-server is a basic LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP 5, MySQL) stack, perfect for running a blog on.  It also supports mod_python and Ruby on Rails, but I plan on releasing a separate LAMR stack in the future (an optimised LAMP stack makes for poor LAMR performance, and vice versa).
• devbox is an empty seed, useful for developing other seeds

I’m also working on a basic home-gateway seed (email/anti-spam/internal DNS/VPN gateway), but that isn’t ready to commit just yet.

The whole idea behind the Seeds is to do what Gentoo has never managed - to provide out-of-the-box working solutions to specific problems.  To do that, I need somewhere I can host pre-compiled Seeds for users to download. If anyone can provide suitable diskspace and bandwidth (or knows anyone who can), I’d love to hear from you!