2009/2/10 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> 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 Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
