A distro would be good and if it was made into an Amazon Machine Image so we can spin it up and use it _without_ having to install it, that's a good thing too.
So the best approach is always both! <br><br><br>------- Original Message ------- On 5/3/2012 11:42 AM Dan Brickley wrote:<br>On 3 May 2012 18:34, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: <br>> Thanks for including Mahout. <br>> <br>> As a point of strategy, wouldn't have better to just build a debian package <br>> repository and a script for installing packages? That would allow people <br>> to use their own debian or ubuntu based distros for their own special needs <br>> such as hardware virtualization or special kernel modules and still get the <br>> benefits that you are offering. <br>> <br>> Otherwise, you are sentencing yourself to a life of hard labor keeping up <br>> with kernel updates and such. <br> <br>I was about to ask the same question... why a whole distro? Unless the <br>whole thing is a highly-tuned and unusual setup, some install scripts <br>are often good enough. <br> <br>Dan <br> <br>
