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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by mihasya on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:16PM (#2554902)
What is your recommendation?
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by hiroprot on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:53PM (#2554991)
FWIW, we're using the Amazon Linux AMI (from Amazon themselves) and are quite happy with it.

It is a pretty minimalist AMI, which is what we wanted. One caveat: it is in beta.

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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by maratd on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:15PM (#2555131)
This is a hybrid between CentOS and Fedora.
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by RyanKearney on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:56PM (#2555087)
CentOS if you can't use RHEL.
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by mihasya on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:03PM (#2555108)
Do you have some benchmarks handy that indicate that CentOS or RHEL are more performant than Ubuntu?
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by maratd on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:21PM (#2555137)
Any performance differences should be negligible. Use what you're used to. I personally use Amazon/CentOS/RHEL because I know where everything is and how everything goes.
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by mihasya on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:44PM (#2555180)
;)
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by rcrowley on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @11:32AM (#2556641)
Because Python 2.4 is still AWESOME!
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by RyanKearney on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @07:43PM (#2558464)
Oh man, good thing you can install python yourself on RHEL. But I wouldn't expect someone using Ubuntu to know how to download and compile the source code themselves.
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Re:EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs by burgerbrain on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @07:29PM (#2562290)
Because they don't have to.

(And I say that as a longtime RH fanboi)

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