<html><head></head><body>I assume you can get Docker containers for Linux desktops? Just make sure all of the OSes have a recent enough LXC and stuff, then when there's a need for a common environment let people run it in a container.<br>
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Alternatively just run the "standard environment" over remote X.<br>
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Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 April 2014 7:37:38 pm AWST, Mitchell Pomery <bobgeorge33@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I'm not suggesting all of them run this setup as the default install, I'm <br />suggesting this as a secondary OS that runs on all UCC's machines that we <br />can boot into when need be.<br /><br />Mint would be my preference because of the default UI I had when using it, <br />and Debian would follow, but they are the only OS's that I've properly <br />used outside UCC.<br /><br />We could debate this at the yet to be announced, upcoming wheel meeting!<br />[BG3]<br /><br />On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Sam Moore wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> My personal preference would be debian (stable... not testing) with MATE.<br /> It actually comes with menus by default. KDE would also be acceptable.<br /><br /> I think the diversity in our desktops is actually a good thing<br /> and it is cooler to have this diversity on actual physical machines<br /> people can sit down
and use than pointing them at VMs.<br /><br /> We *could* adopt a blanket Mint policy, but it isn't fun to update, it<br /> doesn't have a net installer, there are no menus by default,<br /> and the default login manager is completely and utterly broken.<br /><br /> [SZM]<br /><br /> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Mitchell Pomery wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> But we should have some setup so that every machine has the same UI when we<br /> want to try show people how to do things (i.e. Fresher Welcome, Introduction<br /> to Programming).<br /><br /> If not Mint, what?<br /><br /> [BG3]<br /><br /> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Sam Moore wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> [SLX] tried to update it, this was apparently extremely difficult.<br /><br /><hr /><br /> List Archives: <a
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