= Workstation setup =
* Install You will need a Linux workstation for your work in this course. If you already have one you like and are used to: that's great, go ahead and use it (VMs from OPS245 don't count). If you don't have one: you need to set it up this week, so that it's ready for next week's Lab 1. The distribution you use doesn't matter much. The screenshots in the wiki are from a professor's Linux Mint machine, which is a friendly desktop most people don't have trouble with, so if you don't have your own preference: you might as well use that. You can either : # Install it on bare metal a dedicated computer directly, or # Dual-boot with Windows on a computer you already have set up, or # Install it in a VMwareWorkstation virtual machine. The disk space requirements are much lower in OPS345 compared to OPS245, since you'll only need one VM and not much data on it. 50GB will be more than enough for the entire virtual drive. Go ahead and set that up now. Download the ISO file for the latest Cinnamon edition from a mirror [https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php here]. No special setup is required for storage configuration. Do use a username which is the same as your myseneca ID. That will make your life easier in the labs.
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