On 24 Oct 2008, at 11:16 am, Jon Aquilina wrote:
my response
Im not goign to turn this into a distro war everyone is entitled to
their
opinions and preferences. that is not the problem packaing or
repackaing
everything.
are there any debian based distros out there?
You don't really need to make a new derived distro - newer releases of
Ubuntu and/or Debian, in particular, have a lot of cluster-related
gubbins which you can install; here's a sample:
Monitoring:
ganglia
Running commands everywhere:
dsh
clusterssh
Cluster filesystems:
gluster
lustre 1.6 client
ocfs2
cman
Configuration management:
cfengine
Hands-free provisioning:
FAI (Fully Automated Install)
Those are just the bits and pieces which I either use now or am
looking at. I've also noted quite a few bits of HEP community stuff
in there; cernlib, for example, and a very large number of
bioinformatics codes (which is why I'm using Ubuntu as a platform for
providing Bioinformatics training workshops worldwide for the Wellcome
Trust; I just create a re-mixed Xubuntu LiveCD with the bioinformatics
packages on it required for the particular course, and the students
can take the CD home with them afterwards and carry on working on
their own machine). We're using this LiveCD for the first time in
Bangkok in two weeks' time.
Regards,
Tim
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