Hi there, I agree that our current 106.1 and 106.2 objectives are not really helpful anymore. I like the idea of including remote desktop sessions; although I argue that we can't also add virtualization within the three weight points of those objectives.
Objective 106.1, X11 installation and configuration is not entirely irrelevant, apparently we're in the year of the Linux desktop :) What about getting rid of some of the details in there and bring this objective to a higher conceptual level: * Add 'Understanding of the X11 architecture.' * Add 'Overwrite specific aspects of Xorg configuration, such as keyboard layout.' * Add 'Manage access to the X server and display applications on remote X servers.' * Add /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ * Add 'Awareness of Wayland' * Drop 'Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server.' * Drop 'Awareness of the X font server'. * Drop xwininfo * Drop xdpyinfo Objective 106.2 is more tricky. I doubt anyone adjusts display manager greetings these days. We might consider renaming this objective to 'Graphical Desktops' and change the content to something like this: Key Knowledge Areas: * Understand desktop environment and their major components, such as display managers and window managers. * Awareness of major desktop environments * Awareness of protocols to access remote desktop sessions List of terms: * KDE * Gnome * Xfce * X11 * VNC * Spice * RDP That would introduce the protocols Ingo proposed at a level reasonable for a weight one topic and would remove specific configuration of a display manager. What do you think? Fabian On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mark Clarke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What would be good, if its at the right level for 102, is to talk about > > kvm/libvirt and setting up a remote desktop sessions via spice or vnc. > > Some of these details are already touched upon in LPI 304. > > Although I would love to see conversations of bringing these down to > lower levels for junior admins, what day-to-day tasks might be > involved. > > > Nothing more annoying than getting 20 pop-up login boxes in virt-manager. > > Virt-Manager is kinda akin to VMware Player. It's a basic, minimal > solution. > > <Off-Topic/Non-LPI Related> > oVirt is a backend/front-end to libvirt, including Web-based > administration console and full Virtualized Desktop Infractructure > (VDI) for managing SPICE. oVirt, like libvirt, was originally > designed to be HyperVisor agnostic, so there was no reason it couldn't > support Xen or ESX. But because their commercial stacks, XenServer > and vSphere, respectively, are huge, commercial cash cows, Citrix and > VMware never supported further development of oVirt for their > HyperVisors. > > So oVirt has become largely KVM/SPICE-only. Commercially it is > supported as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), RHEV-H being > the equivalent to ESXi, and RHEV-M being the equivalent to vSphere. > </Off-Topic> > > - bjs > > > On 24/10/2017 08:36, Ingo Wichmann wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I think we should think again, what todays junior sysadmin should know > >> about Linux graphical interfaces. Here are my points: > >> > >> * What does a X-Window client application need to start on a remote > >> machine and display on my local machine? > >> * What's the role of a X-Window manager here? > >> * What's the role of a X-Server here? > >> * Security implications > >> > >> I'm not sure about a simple X-Window-based terminal server: do people > >> use this? I'm aware of quite a few people using x2go. > >> > >> * How do I start a VNC Session? > >> * What's the role of a VNC Client here? > >> * What's the role of a VNC Server here? > >> * Security implications > > -- > Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith > E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >
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