Hi Trevor and Greg, My understanding from interacting with the tmpnb server [live demo at https://tmpnb.orge] is that it is a zero-install approach. The installation/maintenance load is reshouldered onto system administrators, and the users can focus on getting work done.
I think that assumption [1] There's no room in the schedule..., should probably be [1A There's no room in the schedule] OR [1B The learners will be working from this cloud infrastructure in the future]. It looks to me that a number of groups, from the D-Lab at Berkeley to JuliaBox at MIT, to DIT4C at University of Melbourne, are moving at full steam on providing this back-end support. Does this make sense? A On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:20:39PM -0400, Greg Wilson wrote: > > 5. The learners are already familiar with Linux, explicitly want to > > learn it, or it's an authentic task worthy of a lesson in its own > > right. > > Docker is trying to branch out beyond Linux. For example, they're > working with Microsoft on a Docker engine [1] and native client [2] > for Windows Server. Not that many of our students are likely to show > up with the server-flavor installed on their laptop, but still, Docker > is aiming to be a generic deployment framework like existing virtual > machines, but without bundling kernels. I don't know how many > scientists use Windows Server boxes for their research, but I'm often > surprised by support for non-free OSes ;). > > Cheers, > Trevor > > [1]: > http://blog.docker.com/2014/10/docker-microsoft-partner-distributed-applications/ > [2]: > http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/15/new-windows-server-containers-and-azure-support-for-docker/ > > -- > This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). > For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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