I also decided to use NFS for storing the desktop home mounts. We will have to see what Rocky Linux brings in the future, but for now I will stick with Ubuntu. My opinion is that this is good for a developer or those that love living in the bleeding edge but is horrible for any enterprise level customer. I planned on using CentOS but as I started to configure my lab Red Hat made the announcement that CentOS Stream was now the upstream distro with rapid and frequent updates. We already integrated Linux authentication with Novell eDirectory via LDAP.Ī lot has changed in 13 years with Linux desktops but /home is still the location for all user data and NFS is better than ever. This was such an interesting challenge especially in 2007 when thumb drives are slow and expensive for anything greater than 2Gig. I worked on several POS (Point of Sales) solutions for your favorite fast food / pizza places, paint stores, sunglasses kiosks and clothing stores during my time, but the one that gave me the knowledge for this article comes from a large automotive customer that wanted to allow the floor workers to walk up to one of many SUSE SLED desktops terminals, insert their personal thumb drive that contained that user’s “home” drive along with their persistent settings. Many customer when I was at SUSE wanted standard mySQL servers, Oracle servers, Apache servers or LAMP based solutions, but my favorite solutions where around the Linux desktop. GNOME 2 set the desktop standard for Linux with an easy to manage graphical interface that attracted developers with the security controls that enterprise customers wanted. SUSE had been a KDE prefered distro until Novell brought in Miguel De Icaza and Nat Friedman as part of Ximian and the switch to GNOME was rolling out. At SUSE, I worked with the early versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and the GNOME desktop environment. I eventually moved to OSX for the hardware and mainly because it had a terminal app. I continued to run openSUSE as my primary rig after I joined VMware since they supplied a Domain joined Windows VM that I ran on VMware Workstation for the next 4 years. I spent 4 years working for SUSE Linux as a pre-sales engineer, 2004-2008, before joining VMware. What this article will not discuss is Layer 8 around Linux. In this article I will discuss and configure of Ubuntu and CentOS desktops for use as a master image in VMware Horizon the provides a persistent user experience. We do this in Windows 10 using Dynamic Environment Management (DEM) and redirected folders but Linux is not Windows, thankfully.
Since Horizon 8 (2006) has started to depreciate Linked Clones in favor of Instant Clones more people need a non-persistent desktop with a persistent user experience. I have been asked many times over that last several years around Horizon for Linux on how to provide persistent user experience.
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