On 26 October 2014 at 12:20, Greg Wilson wrote: | 5. The learners are already familiar with Linux, explicitly want to learn it, | or it's an authentic task worthy of a lesson in its own right.
Sorry, but I really disagree (and others do too as thread shows). You need to know Linux to __build__ Docker containers but not to use them. That is the whole point: I call this "OS as a service" --- particularly if you access a browser based service like iPython and RStudio. The stunning thing about Docker is that can take a non-server OS like windows and still permit you to have an RStudio Server running on it by cleverly interweaving an invisible layer of Linux (via boot2docker) hosting the container defined with standard Linux services inside. Which you never touch as the access is via the webbrowser. You don't need to know how a combustion engine works to rent a ride from Uber. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
