WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

[suvayu ali]

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/

-- 
Suvayu

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