[Cialug] Project Photon

[Matthew Nuzum]

How is this different than hypervisors that are already out there? Isn’t this just a thin layer of an OS so that you can start a container or vm so that you can run Ubuntu or CentOS? If so, then what is new here?
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> On Apr 25, 2015, at 7:50 AM, Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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