Exactly.
Start with something like an Ubuntu LTS release. Work your magic on it. Then release the AMI publicly for others to use.
Mahout et. al. was born to run in a cloud environment anyway.
<br><br><br>------- Original Message -------
On 5/3/2012 12:06 PM Nicholas Kolegraff wrote:<br>Assumed this question was
coming.
<br>I had given this a lot of thought.
<br>I have this crazy notion that nothing should ever be installed and
<br>bootstrapping is really annoying.
<br>I felt it was easier to just launch an AMI.....yet again, why not just
<br>repackage another image.
<br>
<br>The automated build nature of what I do requires me to repackage some lower
<br>level libraries so they can link easily and stably (is that a word?) across
<br>multiple packages.
<br>I also have some longer term objectives that will require me to have
<br>complete control over the kernel and packaging.
<br>It just seemed easier to start my own thing for this.
<br>
<br>Agree, this could prove insane. If that is the case, it wouldn't be *too*
<br>hard for me to convert this to some package repo
<br>
<br>On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Darren Govoni <[email protected]> wrote:
<br>
<br>> A distro would be good and if it was made into an Amazon Machine Image so
<br>> we can spin it up and use it _without_ having to install it, that's a good
<br>> thing too.
<br>>
<br>> So the best approach is always both!
<br>>
<br>> <br><br><br>------- Original Message -------
<br>> On 5/3/2012 11:42 AM Dan Brickley wrote:<br>On 3 May 2012 18:34, Ted
<br>> Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
<br>> <br>> Thanks for including Mahout.
<br>> <br>>
<br>> <br>> As a point of strategy, wouldn't have better to just build a debian
<br>> package
<br>> <br>> repository and a script for installing packages? That would allow
<br>> people
<br>> <br>> to use their own debian or ubuntu based distros for their own
<br>> special needs
<br>> <br>> such as hardware virtualization or special kernel modules and still
<br>> get the
<br>> <br>> benefits that you are offering.
<br>> <br>>
<br>> <br>> Otherwise, you are sentencing yourself to a life of hard labor
<br>> keeping up
<br>> <br>> with kernel updates and such.
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>I was about to ask the same question... why a whole distro? Unless the
<br>> <br>whole thing is a highly-tuned and unusual setup, some install scripts
<br>> <br>are often good enough.
<br>> <br>
<br>> <br>Dan
<br>> <br>
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