Centos is an open-source version of a Redhat linux enterprise server operating system. The page describes creating a new virtual machine with Centos 7. The advantage of Centos 7 over earlier versions is some level of support for parallel processing, which FSL or FreeSurfer may take advantage of. The GUI has changed quite a bit from Centos 6.
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- Install mricron; download, extract, and save in /usr/local. Drag shortcut to desktop.
- Add the GUI for user administration:
yum install system-config-users
- Change the default login to tsch: System => Administration => Users and Groups; enter the password, select user, and change the login shell to "/bin/tcsh".
- To allow "sudo" commands, edit the /etc/sudoers file with EDITOR=nano visudo; add the user by entering another line in the "MACHINE=COMMANDS" section:
Display customization
Add top bar
yum install gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock
Restart , then go to Tweaks and enable Dash to dock
Ideas from here.
yum install dconf-editor
After Installing FSL and FreeSurfer
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