Dowd and Associates is offering Pygoscelis Papua Linux. Pygoscelis Papua Linux is an unofficial build of Gentoo Linux for Amazon EC2.

Starting in March 2023, we are using a 12 month rolling wave for AMIs in us-east-1. Starting in September 2016, we are using a 3 month rolling wave for the AMIs, keeping the two most recent builds. Starting in January 2015, we ceased building the 32-bit images.

If you have the EC2 command line tools installed, you can start an instance like so:

Console - user@hostname ~ $

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aws --region us-east-1 ec2 run-instances --image-id "" --key-name "key-name"

The username to login is ec2-user. To connect to the instance you would do:

Console - user@hostname ~ $

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ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/key-name.pem ec2-user@ec2-1-2-3-4.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Region AMI ID Arch Instance Type AKI ID Timestamp
ap-northeast-1 ami-0708419d35cbb1f38 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ap-northeast-2 ami-00f6c8db2e1c95471 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ap-northeast-3 ami-00d954771f6a37661 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ap-south-1 ami-0f77bd80674e2eed9 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ap-southeast-1 ami-07dbb825071e9a3b4 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ap-southeast-2 ami-06835d946d3101c73 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
ca-central-1 ami-08b50a7befa39ca63 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
eu-central-1 ami-0992508841e5bdc24 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
eu-north-1 ami-030ac550091934fdf x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
eu-west-1 ami-014c4c4bbf86dfce1 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
eu-west-2 ami-0318d8e5b1da8a2a4 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
eu-west-3 ami-0cf9f0df1695c77e3 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
sa-east-1 ami-0cbadf4557b8ebbaa x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
us-east-1 ami-0285595a32adf1f06 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
us-east-2 ami-0a03380eddaee0c59 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
us-west-1 ami-01f1d4c1ac3a1d1e8 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22
us-west-2 ami-05e9a1a944ae07722 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-03-12-05-15-22

Old Images

Region AMI ID Arch Instance Type AKI ID Timestamp
ap-northeast-1 ami-044ee5e4282471a08 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ap-northeast-2 ami-0440f54dae5102a9e x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ap-northeast-3 ami-07489ba88f43d476f x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ap-south-1 ami-0ced3fc7d52fd28d2 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ap-southeast-1 ami-0e620af93588c8fcd x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ap-southeast-2 ami-0e5dbb9b0de8d87b7 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
ca-central-1 ami-0d0a861c7e6799025 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
eu-central-1 ami-06efd4c1adaae9f9f x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
eu-north-1 ami-079860a33e05484e7 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
eu-west-1 ami-04aee72fe0ac1706c x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
eu-west-2 ami-0c216a5504477c650 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
eu-west-3 ami-0c02875ffe62195a0 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
sa-east-1 ami-0f9cfa213994d6c42 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
us-east-1 ami-0d1c36c4403663f2d x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
us-east-2 ami-0dc82eb16ea6b4be1 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
us-west-1 ami-0832cc72a9e90616a x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
us-west-2 ami-07e0209981aeee68b x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2023-01-20-00-34-10
us-east-1 ami-0990f040cccd106ae x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2022-09-01-21-22-02
us-east-1 ami-04ef028ee76ae7640 x86_64 hvm:ebs hvm 2022-05-08-01-03-52

See the changelog and how to build the images yourself.


Gentoo is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc. The Dowd and Associates Gentoo in the Cloud and Pygoscelis Papua Linux machine images are unofficial builds and are not part of the Gentoo project and is not directed or managed by Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
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