Thanks Larry, thats a very nice description.

I would add that if you want to setup a 'lab environment' where you
might have a few more packages, e.g. matplotlib, pandas etc. you could
write your own Dockerfile, using our image as a base. This works as
follows:

FROM fenicsproject/stable-ppa:latest
MAINTAINER <[email protected]>

RUN any_command_you_like_here

The really clever bit is because of Docker's 'layered file systems'
this should only take a few megabytes more of disk space over and
above our image. Another nice side-effect of the layered file system
is that you can have as many containers running as you want. I ran 100
fenics containers (!) on my laptop the other day and the disk and CPU
overhead was negligible. More practically I usually run one per
project.

Jack Hale
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