Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:

Presumably these images sit somewhere directly on the Amazon EC2 (and are never brought home to ANL or anywhere else) so storing them and "moving them" is not an issue? Doesn't anyone using Amazon EC2 have to deal with the fact that the Linux image is big?

I don't understand how it can be that big. 6GB is my entire system including KDE, GNOME, and ton of other huge extraneous packages. Non-debug libpetsc.so is less than 10MB. Anyway, I think this is the distribution model https://aws.amazon.com/amis