Nicolas Barcet Free zone of nijaba

So basically… the graph above says that Canonical is very active in creating and refining EC2 images. That's not particularly shocking… but not as active as rBuilder. Hmm that's a little surprising. I'm going to have to watch rpath more closely.

If you are going to wish for Amazon instance-ran data you might want to expand it out a little more than just Canonical. Jumpbox is also Ubuntu LTS based. Is Jumpbox out-performing Canonical in finding a way to monetize Ubuntu based EC2 images with its appliance based approach? Is JumpBox doing well enough to contributeback financially to the Ubuntu community? Can't say until we see the numbers. While we are wishing, it be really interesting to see how rBuilder is doing in terms of instance-ran time. Their packaging system is gear towards appliance imaging and refreshing unlike more traditional linux distribution packaging.

• jef