News Update: On 2/21/2019, TG officially "moved in" to a SLAC managed Linux Desktop 2.0 environment. A major milestone!
This page describes certain features of the "Linux Desktop 2.0" pilot/R&D project. While this project has been in progress for some time, these notes begin in July 2018.
There are an estimated 200-300 Linux desktop users at SLAC. This project aims to provide a basic managed and maintained building block desktop from which users may customize to their specific needs. At this writing, either Ubuntu or CentOS are available options. This is very much a work in progress....
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- consider should the user have the netboot file remain active and have the user manually remove the link that makes it active with
echo "get Kickstart_end" | /usr/bin/tftp lnxpapaor do this for them automatically after the first build. Make this an attribute for the node build ? Consider this for ubuntu too - And ubuntu and kickstart are not great together, unless this is very, very dated https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility - Decide if we want the pxekicktit to by default run chef on the node. As of 2018-09-27, a build with ks.cfg.centos7.linux_desktop_2 does not run chef. I suggest we do run chef in the default installation, and one picks ks.cfg.centos7.linux_desktop_2.no_chef_run If one does not want to run chef.
- decide is this only for SLAC owned equipment or can users with non-SLAC equipment use the chef cookbooks - what does that mean for slac_motd - the content of that message does it change at all?
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