[pkg-eucalyptus-commits] [SCM] managing cloud instances for Eucalyptus branch, master, updated. debian/1.2-1-4-ga68ae44
Steffen Moeller
steffen_moeller at gmx.de
Fri Mar 12 16:11:39 UTC 2010
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 5820a68244c255e1123de715a6aa72b80fa6caa5
Author: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>
Date: Fri Mar 12 17:10:05 2010 +0100
Merged README.Debian and README.debian.
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 8397f8a..784efe5 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@ When installing this package, you may already have heard about the
concept of cloud computing which was brought to considerable attention
by the internet merchant Amazon and their EC2 (elastic compute cloud)
and S3 (storage) services. The Eucalyptus team provides such services
-themselves, too, but with an Open Source infrastructure, while achieving
+themselves, too, but with an Open Source infrastructure. They achieved
a binary compatibility with the Amazon API as an independent development.
+
The initial idea behind the here represented concept of clouds is to
have remote storage space. That arbitrary data may also be bootable disk
images, and the EC2 functionality means to start one or multiple instances
of these. The images are not necessarily provided by the respective
user themselves, but they may instead be shared in communities. As such,
-clouds may be perceived as a continuation of the community-driven Linux
-distributions.
+clouds may be perceived as a continuation and extension of the
+community-driven Linux distributions.
This package provides the functionality to control disk images, i.e. to
upload, start or stop them. The images may be derived from already existing
@@ -24,8 +25,8 @@ shared scripts on the internet.
See also
- * http://open.eucalyptus.com/
- * http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
+ * http://open.eucalyptus.com/ - upstream home page
+ * http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ -
* http://alestic.com/
* vmbuilder (Debian/Ubuntu packages)
* http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud
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