[Cialug] Project Photon

[Theron Conrey]

They have what most Linux distros don't have... $$$$ to get certified to run enterprise applications and a massive install base. 

While poorly worded, this is a good thing.

-theron

> On Apr 24, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You know what we could really use? Another Linux distro.
> 
> https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/
> 
> "Today, we’re pleased to announce two new open source projects – Project
> Photon and Project Lightwave – that will help our customers to securely
> build, run, and manage their cloud-native applications.
> 
> "Photon provides the following benefits:
> 
>  "Support for the most popular Linux container formats including Docker,
> rkt, and Garden from Pivotal
>  "Minimal footprint (approximately 300MB), to provide an efficient
> environment for running containers
>  "Seamless migration of container workloads from development to production
>  "All the security, management, and orchestration benefits already
> provided with vSphere offering system administrators with operational
> simplicity"
> 
> It's humorous how they say they are "open sourcing Project Photon". Well of
> course you are. It's not yours to close.
> 
> I will be curious to see how this pans out, though. I think there's room
> for a VMware-supported, VMware-optimized, Linux distro.
> 
> --
> Todd
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