Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2021-05-04

Invitees - Attendees

• Dave, Adrian, Anthony, Clayton, Fraser, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

Agenda Items

IST concerns over opening udp ports for internet mosh access to our Ubuntu 20.04

• seashell also requires external ports for direct access.
• CSCF Director suggested that it would not be a deal breaker to require using campus VPN
• discussion devolved into can we eliminate passwords

Various discussions about vscode, seashell, jupyterhub, and other tools to support course work.

Problems in the Teaching linux general-use systems

We need to revive a version of pswatcher!

• Anthony will enable thread-count monitoring on Linux general-use systems (or document what enhancements need Devon to facilitate)

vscode RT#1116580, RT#1121144, ....

• need to investigate/isolate what/where the problem is. Can we isolate to a few modules
• cs442 (Programming Languages, Gregor R) course is an example of where vscode (with its multi language support modules) is very useful.
• maybe evaluate neovim

Proposed Future Agenda Items

devolve bs202 and bs204.

Thin client startup requirements

Source and what lookup Histograms of CSCF DNS queries

how do we survey Profs (bumped to meeting Omar is attending)

• POC talk to the people they support.
  • POC are spread very thin and getting thinner.
• ISG feedback
  • doesn't cover higher level course.