SuSE 10.2 workstation image: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:04, 28 August 2007

The SuSE 10.1 workstation image is rolled out and working; it's time to start worrying about 10.2

LDAP support: your password is your LDAP password, so it's the same on all the workstations that you have an account on. Also makes it much easier to give people accounts on each other's workstations quickly and use Unix groups for access control.
The usual updated application software
Vastly improved patching system- no longer will the parse-metadata process hog the cpu once a day

Mathematica 5.2 - produces very odd error messages; 6.0 will be installed instead
numarray - even the numarray people say 'do not use this code'; does anyone here really still need it?
PGI 6.x - no choice, not supported in 10.2.

Add stuff you'd like in the new image here.

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 The [[SuSE 10.1 workstation image]] is rolled out and working; it's time to start worrying about 10.2
+== Improvements in 10.2 ==
+* LDAP support: your password is your LDAP password, so it's the same on all the workstations that you have an account on. Also makes it much easier to give people accounts on each other's workstations quickly and use Unix groups for access control.
+* The usual updated application software
+* Vastly improved patching system- no longer will the parse-metadata process hog the cpu once a day
 == Packages to be dropped ==
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 * OpenMPI (Modern MPI library)
-== Packages definitely installed ==
+== Packages definitely to be installed ==
 === SuSE ===