Is this question being asked because Apple moved away from the whole
"cat-themed" OS naming convention?

I think the Nyan Cat had it's own linux for awhile...maybe you could just
use that?



On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Jason Bengtson <[log in to unmask]>
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> We have some stuff hosted on a CentOS virtual server, but I have been
> growing increasingly fond of Manjaro. It's built on top of the excellent
> Arch linux distro, but provides greater usability. I've got it on a
> research machine at work and on my Linux-Fu machine at home that I've been
> using to push through some very processor-intensive php data
> wrangling/shaping scripts for our current catalog migration. I'm using the
> xcfe desktop and I'm quite happy with it. If I wasn't using Manjaro, I'd
> probably be back to using Mint. Bear in mind that Mint and Ubuntu will tend
> to have more things built to work seamlessly with them.
>
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> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Exactly. I suppose recipe implied Chef, but I should have explicitly
> > mentioned it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cary
> >
> > On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >> It seems to me that you cold accomplish most, if not all, of what you
> > > want with a good deployment recipe.
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is in fact what we are looking for:
> > > https://www.getchef.com/chef/. It allows you to set up an OS in a
> > > standardized and re-usable way. It would be much more feasible to have
> a
> > > repo of library-related "recipes" that allow us to have a standard,
> > > automated process for setting up common library applications (primarily
> > > thinking server here but client is also imaginable).
> >
>