[colug-432] disposable systems and other ready-to-run stuff [was: Red Hat and CentOS buddy-up]

[jim at rossberry.com]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Rick Troth wrote:

> To me, the concept of a ready-to-run system, with selectable
> ready-to-run packages, is simply begging for implementation (and yet
> strangely difficult to *articulate*). I've seen it done, and done it
> myself, but never been able to explain it. Or maybe the audience wanted
> something different. Gotta think "cloud" drives up the demand for simple
> and scalable. Or maybe it's still just a quaint fringe idea.

The docker project is certainly in this space.

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