Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francis, On 12/7/11 3:07 AM, Francis GALIEGUE wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 02:02, André Warnier wrote: > [...]> >> >> I'd comment too on the lack of packages in RHEL. I know that lots >> of missing perl modules won't bother you much, but maybe a

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/6/11 8:02 PM, André Warnier wrote: > I'd comment too on the lack of packages in RHEL. I know that lots > of missing perl modules won't bother you much, but maybe a missing > mod_jk will leave you less serene ? You know me: I always build

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-07 Thread André Warnier
Francis GALIEGUE wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 02:02, André Warnier wrote: [...]> I'd comment too on the lack of packages in RHEL. I know that lots of missing perl modules won't bother you much, but maybe a missing mod_jk will leave you less serene ? Why use mod_jk when you have mod_proxy_aj

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-07 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 02:02, André Warnier wrote: [...]> > > I'd comment too on the lack of packages in RHEL. > I know that lots of missing perl modules won't bother you much, but maybe a > missing mod_jk will leave you less serene ? > Why use mod_jk when you have mod_proxy_ajp? -- Francis Ga

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francis, On 12/6/11 5:36 PM, Francis GALIEGUE wrote: What are your primary concerns? Well, like most administrators, I'm lazy which means I'd prefer not to have to learn a whole lot of new stuff like package management

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gavin, On 12/6/11 5:51 PM, Gavin Yue wrote: > Which JVM are you using, default one or installing hotspot? When you say "hotspot" do you mean the Sun/Oracle JVM? I plan on using the Sun/Oracle JVM and not something like OpenJDK -- at least for now. I

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Gavin Yue
Which JVM are you using, default one or installing hotspot? Thx On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jordan Michaels wrote: > I've had good experiences with Tomcat on CentOS using EC2. Pretty simple > to get familiar with if you're already comfortable with CentOS. > > Warm Regards, > Jordan Michaels

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francis, On 12/6/11 5:36 PM, Francis GALIEGUE wrote: > What are your primary concerns? Well, like most administrators, I'm lazy which means I'd prefer not to have to learn a whole lot of new stuff like package management eccentricities, etc. I haven

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Jordan Michaels
I've had good experiences with Tomcat on CentOS using EC2. Pretty simple to get familiar with if you're already comfortable with CentOS. Warm Regards, Jordan Michaels On 12/06/2011 02:23 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I'm provisioning my fir

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 23:23, Christopher Schultz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > I'm provisioning my first Amazon EC2 instance and I was wondering if > anyone has any recommendations on the flavor of Linux I choose. > > I am most familiar with the Debian/Ubun

Re: [OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Gavin Yue
Amazon linux belong to RHEL/CentOS family. You could choose the ubuntu image: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide They have official AMI. But someone claimed that Amazon Linus has best performance on EC2, since it is created by Amazon... On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Christ

[OT] Recommendations for Amazon EC2 Linux Flavor

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I'm provisioning my first Amazon EC2 instance and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on the flavor of Linux I choose. I am most familiar with the Debian/Ubuntu package management and administration and, of course, Amazon has neith