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This page serves as a specification and feature request page for the
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classroom laptops.
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The classroom laptops are running a Linux distribution, currently Debian
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(probably better to be running testing than stable), with MATE desktop
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environment. Tom maintains a canonical image.
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They are used primarily for modeling, rendering, and slicing 3d printed
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parts, but can and should be functional for all purposes in the
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classroom.
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Currently implemented on a bunch (6) of Dell D430s, maybe some D420s.
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## Hardware
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I (Tom) donated 6 old Dell Core Duo D430/420 laptops for this use.
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They're super cheap and I had a pile of them. I think they're actually
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kind of ideal for this purpose, all things considered. They're not nice
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enough that anybody would want to re-purpose them to any other job, and
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since most of them don't have batteries nobody walks off with them.
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After almost a year they seem to be doing the job and getting lots of
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use.
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## Software (locally installed or remote access)
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### 3d design
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- Cura
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- Meshlab
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- Implicitcad (runs on Jobs or gygax)
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### Browsers
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- Firefox
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- Chromium
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- Midori or something similarly lightweight.
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### Microcontroller
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- INO
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- Arduino
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### Coding
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- Python 3
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- Rust
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### Productivity
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- Something for email
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- Printing should be enabled
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### Sys utils
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- tmux ssh vi/vim emacs etc.
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- Terminator
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- guake
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- most
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- avahi-utils
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### Other HacDC activities
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Documentation, links, and how-tos on the desktop...
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## TODO
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- Update image and re-image all laptops.
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- Enable all laptops for incoming and outgoing email...?
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- Fix the HW clock issue possibly by setup NTP so that SSL errors don't
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happen.
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- Work out a way to do efficient X-forwarding over our WiFi to job
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server for heavier applications.
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- Configure laptops in some way to be more like a thin client so there
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is no/less need to 'update' the image or re-image regularly. In the
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dumbest case we could have them be simple VNC kiosks to a VM running
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on jobs...?
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- Test above last two for practicality.
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## Feature requests
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- Most recent Arduino suite. \[INO\]
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- More scripts and or instructions for usability -- 2d printing, 3d
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printing, using jobs.
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- Maybe put ~/\* or ~/Desktop on a network share.
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[Category:HacDC Computers](Category:HacDC_Computers "wikilink") |