[Cialug] Project Photon

[Theron Conrey]

From an open source perspective, this could be a bigger company that is going to really push a new model distribution.

-theron

> On Apr 25, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>> 
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