This AMI contains the base Fedora 8 install with updates current as of 26 March 2008, with some minor tweaks to improve performance and security in EC2.
It also boots the Fedora Xen kernel 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen.
Specifically the tweaks are :
- Xen friendly glibc configuration ( 'hwcap 0 nosegneg' )
- PasswordAuthentication turned off by default in sshd_config
- UseDNS turned off by default in sshd_config
- Number of running daemons has been minimised
- Automatic pull down of kernel modules via /usr/local/sbin/update-modules.sh
- Automatic update of ec2-ami-tools via /usr/local/sbin/update-tools.sh
- Includes yum-fastestmirror yum plugin.