Create AMIs for 8.04 Hardy Heron

[Eric Hammond]

Create and make available official EC2 images for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (32-bit and 64-bit, US and Europe).

Hardy is an LTS release and is preferred by some companies running on EC2 (including me).

It's not clear to me if a separate kernel image (AKI+ARI) would be necessary. It's possible that Hardy could run on the Intrepid kernel on EC2.

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

On 12/25/2008 10:06 AM, Eric Hammond wrote:
> It's not clear to me if a separate kernel image (AKI+ARI) would be
> necessary. It's possible that Hardy could run on the Intrepid kernel on
> EC2.

While this could potentially "work", it would at least defeat the
purpose of an LTS (which is maintained for 5 years on servers) to be
running on a non LTS kernel which is only maintained for 18 months,
wouldn't it?

[Eric Hammond (esh)]

Good point. Please consider this a request for:

1. An Ubuntu Hardy AKI+ARI (kernel, ramdisk)
2. An Ubuntu Hardy AMI

The former is probably more important because once it exists, users can create their own Hardy AMIs using the kernel with vmbuilder.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Official version for hardy are already available.