[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

[Tony Travis]

On 14/04/15 10:43, Tom Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:03:19AM +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
>> I'll be continuing my quest to get DevStack on my "minke" server
>> accessible from Space via ChaosVPN and fiddling about with MATE.

Hi, Tom.

I'm installing "ubuntu-desktop" on it just now (already installed MATE).

> Any progress so far? The student building our MAAS cluster is having a lot of
> trouble with ubuntu and its gui nonesense, open/dev stack seems trickier than
> expected. We are trying some nodes as a Qlustar instance so we can have
> something interesting at the end of his placement.

Let me know if you want some help?

I use MATE or Gnome Flashback + Metacity on the server console to avoid
the pain of running Unity without a hardware accelerated GPU...

Bye,

  Tony.

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