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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

Image Added

Ideas from here.

yum install dconf-editor

After Installing FSL and FreeSurfer

Install graphics libraries:

yum install mesa-libGLU
yum install libXScrnSaver

Reset the network connection to Host-only, under the VM Settings in Workstation (VM => Settings => Harware, Network adapter). If you want to run updates, change temporarily to NAT. You will likely need to edit the connection settings when you change back to Host-only

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