[ale] Preferred Linux under Docker?

[Jim Kinney]

+1

On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 13:41 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> I've yet to find a use case in our setup for it that wasn't either:
> 1.  "Containers are cool, we need to use them!"
> 2.  Incoherent string of buzzwords from someone who just got back
> from a conference.
> Allen B.
> 
> 
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> Office of Information Technology
> The University of Alabama
> Office 205-348-2251
> allen at ua.edu
> 
> On 5/15/17, 8:29 AM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Jim Kinney" <a
> le-bounces at ale.org on behalf of jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I still see 'containers' as a blend between a chroot and a
> virtual machine. 
>     
>     
>     As an admin, user willingness to download any old container they
> found on the tubes that has their solution stuffed into it is a
> terrifying idea.
>     
>     
>     On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 09:22 -0400, leam hall wrote:
>     
>     On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.ed
> u> wrote:
>     
>     Since I'm a SUSE guy, I would automatically say SUSE/openSUSE,
> but I'm sure you will get that answer from each person with their
> preferred distro(s).
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     "If I knew SuSE like you know SuSE..."   Sorry, couldn't resist.
>     
>     Remeber those Sun boxes? This will be going on them. We now have
> a
>     garage to deal with the sound issue.   :)
>     
>     After a couple decades I'm not sure the current distro vendors
> get it.
>     RH seems to be moving away from being on the hardware or a VM,
> and
>     wants to go theri own way like Solaris. If I'm going to go
> somewhere
>     might as well go all the way.
>     
>     Leam
>     _______________________________________________
>     Ale mailing list
>     Ale at ale.orghttp://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>     See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>     
>     -- 
>     James P. Kinney III
>     
>     Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What
> you
>     gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on
> his
>     own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>     - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>     
>     http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>     
>     
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20170515/93e365b7/attachment.html>