WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!
suvayu ali
fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 19:35:14 UTC 2009
2009/2/10 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is well said. We recently deployed some Scientific Linux virtual
>> machines at our lab, and conary helps there in keeping the size of the
>> images significantly small.
>
> Is SL using conary?
No. It is a customised SL virtual machine called CernVM targeted
towards High Energy Physics data analysis. The packages used for these
are really large (of the order of 10+ gigs), so disk space is at a
premium.
In case you are interested here are some links,
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/CernVM
http://cernvm.cern.ch/cernvm/
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Suvayu
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