Hi Tom!
Finally got a chance to review the image. My first attempt two days ago filled up my laptop so I had to make other arrangements.. :)
That said, overall I love it! I did have a few comments and suggestions, but didn't see anything major other than a networking failure on import. Below are my notes.
Cheers!
Sean
=== VM NOTES ===
After importing image, got following error message from VirtualBox:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine BRL-CAD_X.Y.Z_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86.
Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
Had to go to Network settings, selected Bridged Adapter, type "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)" but networking within the VM still didn't work.
Displays grub menu on boot -- would be nice to just autoboot to first entry so no interaction is required.
Love the double-console windows on login!
BRL-CAD logo for Desktop background? New logo would be awesome: http://brlcad.org/d/node/92
Rename "vuser" to "brlcad" or even "BRL-CAD"? Alternatively "caduser" or similar, but would be nice to leverage our branding.
Double-clicking brlcad-config.sh prompts run or view, but run does nothing (confusing). Suggest replacing with a README that introduces the image (perhaps the same one being used on the downloads page) and includes a simple build walkthrough. We don't want to shelter them from learning the steps
Suggest renaming "local-docs" to "Documentation" and include website pdf docs there. Put Bullet link in an "Other" subdir so it's available but out of the way, not to be confused with BRL-CAD docs.
Love the code samples, though I'd suggest some alternates. I'll come up with a list...
Love the web browser bookmarks. :)
Suggest deleting Downloads directory (Firefox will automatically re-add it).
On Mar 11, 2012, at 02:28 PM, Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmailcom> wrote:
The subject VM is now on the BRL-CAD SF site (~1.7 Gb):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20for%20Virtual%20Machines/
The intent of the VM is to give the GSoC interns a good starting place
so they can be productive as soon as possible. Please give it a test
drive so we can improve it before they start their work.
You will need about 6 Gb free space on your computer (after the
download) to import the VM into Oracle VirtualBox run it.
The user name is "vuser" with a password of "Vuser!" (you should
change the password upon first login).
Don't forget to check out the Firefox browser links on the bookmarks
toolbar as well as the folder icons on the desktop and the
sub-directories in the home directory. Note that the "Downloads"
directory can be removed but it tends to reappear if you download
through Firefox and don't change its download defaults.
The "brlcad-svn" has the brlcad/trunk current as of late yesterday and
the brlcad-build directory has a configured and tested build followed
by a "make clean" command. The "brlcad-config.sh" script is just a
helper for repetitive configures and builds and it set to be called
from inside the build directory:
$ cd ~/brlcad-build ; ../brlcad_config.sh
The successful trunk build (debug; with pdf extra docs) is installed
in the default location. The PATH and MANPATH reflect that location,
and Firefox has links to the installed BRL-CAD documentation.
The latest CMake, Bullet Physics, and Apache FOP are installed, and
the environment variable APACHE_FOP points to the fop executable.
Editors vi, emacs, and jEdit are installed alongside the simple gedit.
The ~/.bash-aliases file has some handy aliases for getting around:
cad='cd ~/brlcad-svn'
cabd='cd ~/brlcad-build'
svu='svn update'
svc='svn ci'
svs='svn status'
There are other aliases for safe versions of destructive commands (cp,
rm, mv) and shortcuts for commonly-used commands and options.
There is also a PERL5LIB environment variable set for the current directory:
PERL5LIB=.
Suggestions for change or additions are encouraged.
Best regards,
-Tom
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