BFH Linux Desktop. SWITCHprocure Open Source Info Event, University of Bern. Tuesday, 24th November :15 16:00

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1 BFH Linux Desktop SWITCHprocure Open Source Info Event, University of Bern Tuesday, 24th November :15 16:00 Daniel Baumann IT System Engineer, Team Infrastructure Services IT Fachhochschule Services Berner Haute école spécialisée bernoise Bern University of Applied Sciences

2 Overview Really Quick... BFH and IT-Services...Main Part Linux Desktop Please interrupt and/or ask questions at any time

3 BFH and ITS

4 Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH 3'000 Employees (1'500 FTE), 7'000 Students (42% Women) 5+1 Departements, 29 Bachelor- und 21 Master Studies, misc. CAS/Cont. Education 29 Locations throughout Canton Bern Languages: German, French, and English

5 Infrastructure Team, IT-Services 600 Router and Switches, 600 WLAN Access Points, 1'800 Voip-Phones 2 Main Data Centers with total 3 VMware ESX Cluster and 2 NetApp Storage (200TB) 250 Server: 150 Linux (140 virtual, 10 physical) 10'000 User Accounts, 16'000 Mail Accounts

6 Linux Desktop

7 History ( ) Linux via PXE primarily for TI, no official Standard Client Unofficial Linux Terminal Server (different from PXE system; only SSH and X11) Employees could order a PXE Desktop as an alternative to OS X and Windows In general, for most of the things no support/best-effort only End of 2013: more manpower

8 Today ( ) Linux Desktop (Soft Launch ) Official Service Offering ( ): - preinstalled Desktops or Laptops (no Apple Hardware) - Installation on existing Hardware by ITS (no Apple Hardware) - combined Installation and Live Media (ISO/USB) for Selfservice - PXE Installation and Live System - Terminalserver (SSH and X11) - VM (VirtualBox) For completeness sake: Virtual Server (LXC), regular User and Sysadmin Meetings

9 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer - Boot Menu

10 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer - Modes Preseed Debian Installer Two Modes: Personal and Institution Institutional Mode runs entirely non-interactive, uses LDAP and wipes the disk The following Screenshots are from Personal Mode

11 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer Choose Localization

12 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer Choose Username

13 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer - Partitioning

14 BFH Linux Desktop: Installer Total Runtime ~5min

15 BFH Linux Desktop: GNOME

16 BFH Linux Desktop: GNOME

17 BFH Linux Desktop: Browser

18 BFH Linux Desktop:

19 BFH Linux Desktop: Calendar

20 BFH Linux Desktop: Office

21 BFH Linux Desktop: Office

22 BFH Linux Desktop: Office

23 BFH Linux Desktop: Chat

24 BFH Linux Desktop: File Manager

25 BFH Linux Desktop: Images

26 BFH Linux Desktop: Graphics

27 BFH Linux Desktop: Publishing

28 BFH Linux Desktop: 20'000 other Packages

29 BFH Linux Desktop: VirtualBox

30 Debian based GNOME Desktop Debian 8 (jessie) with Fixes, Backports, Preconfiguration and a few Extra Packages Installation with only 3 (or 0, depending on the Installer Mode) manual Steps Images available for 32 and 64 Bit, in multiple Media Flavours (ISO/USB, etc.) All images are identical in content and fully automatically built Basic Package Selection for Office Use is about 1'300 Packages/1.7 GB Overlays for special interest groups are available as meta-packages (mostly for science)

31 What if I can't/don't want to do an Installation? (1/2)

32 What if I can't/don't want to do an Installation? (2/2) Use Terminal Server Use netboot over PXE (NFS or HTTP) when at BFH Use webboot over HTTP when outside of BFH Download VirtualBox Image

33 Download and Further Information

34 Future (1/2) Terminalserver also via VNC, RDP and HTML5 Deploying Solution for Crytpo-Bootstrapping, allows to have only one Image flavour Autoconfiguration of Applications on first use Migration between local User to LDAP, and back Take your Data with you Button Conditional Partitioning Finish Project Documentation and publish everything as Open Infrastructure

35 Future (2/2) R&D and Teaching emphasis 300 TB Ceph Cluster 200 Core/1.5TB RAM OpenStack Cluster Open Wifi VDI

36 Thank You for Your Attention. Source Code is freely available git clone git://git.bfh.ch/git/staff/bad9/other/talks.git