[tech] Why we should not use Mint as the SOE

[Mitchell Pomery]

I'm not suggesting all of them run this setup as the default install, I'm 
suggesting this as a secondary OS that runs on all UCC's machines that we 
can boot into when need be.

Mint would be my preference because of the default UI I had when using it, 
and Debian would follow, but they are the only OS's that I've properly 
used outside UCC.

We could debate this at the yet to be announced, upcoming wheel meeting!
[BG3]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Sam Moore wrote:

> My personal preference would be debian (stable... not testing) with MATE.
> It actually comes with menus by default. KDE would also be acceptable.
>
> I think the diversity in our desktops is actually a good thing
> and it is cooler to have this diversity on actual physical machines
> people can sit down and use than pointing them at VMs.
>
> We *could* adopt a blanket Mint policy,  but it isn't fun to update, it
> doesn't have a net installer, there are no menus by default,
> and the default login manager is completely and utterly broken.
>
> [SZM]
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Mitchell Pomery wrote:
>
>> But we should have some setup so that every machine has the same UI when we
>> want to try show people how to do things (i.e. Fresher Welcome, Introduction
>> to Programming).
>>
>> If not Mint, what?
>>
>> [BG3]
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Sam Moore wrote:
>>
>>> [SLX] tried to update it, this was apparently extremely difficult.
>>>
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