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

[Matt Johnston]

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.

Alternatively just run the "standard environment" over remote X.

Matt

On 10 April 2014 7:37:38 pm AWST, Mitchell Pomery <bobgeorge33 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>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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