Why ubuntu?

[afishler]

Just a curiosity question that popped here in the office.

Why was Ubuntu selected as the platform for a sclar base image?

After all according to what we are familiar with here Ubuntu is
considered a nice Desktop but not the first choice for a server
platform for a production system.

Are there plans to offer a CentOS image for example?

Thanks,
Arie.

[Alex Kovalyov]

Try searching by Ubuntu in this group.
Overall logic was: Ubuntu is Debian, with a quicker packages updates.
ubuntu server edition was used if I am not mistaken.

[jmochs]

I, for one, would certainly like to see a redhat variant (fedora or
centos or the like). I've run into a number of issues with the
default ubuntu builds, such as:

broken gd implementation in php -- imagerotate() function and a couple
others aren't there because the distro maintainers refuse to build it
in, so one has to recompile php (or re-write their app) if they need
those functions
things are in weird places... php.ini in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini?
with softlinks to conf.d being ../conf.d
setting the hostname / domain name is all based on having things in
the right order in the hosts file and mucking about with a bunch of
other files -- this is so solaris 5 ;P
my familiarity with ubuntu / debian distros is low ;) (which may
explain one of my major annoyances... is there an equivalent of yum
search <package>?)
There's more of course, but it's all nitpicky things like the above,
so I won't bore you with them all.

Of course, all of the things I've found are pretty easily worked
around, but given the amount of time I've had to spend recompiling and
figuring out where things live in ubuntu and searching for packages
that I needed, it would be nice to have some images based on redhat.

Now that I've had my whine, is there something I can do to help add
some fedora / centos images to the mix? I imagine that creating a
base image with your scalr scripts wouldn't take too many
modifications to get an image up and running...

Thanks,
james

[Alex Kovalyov]

> Now that I've had my whine, is there something I can do to help add
> some fedora / centos images to the mix? I imagine that creating a
> base image with your scalr scripts wouldn't take too many
> modifications to get an image up and running...

James, It would involve porting two .deb packages (
http://apt.scalr.net/debian/scalr/all/) to redhat - mostly changing paths in
all scripts and testing all roles.
We're working on replacing SNMP with messaging. As soon as it is complete,
someone will finish work on java-based Scalarizr.

[jmochs]

Cool, I'll take a look at them and see what I can do

Thanks,
James

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> James, It would involve porting two .deb packages (http://apt.scalr.net/debian/scalr/all/) to redhat - mostly changing paths in