Workshop Workstation Set-up


This page is designed to aid U. San Francisco technical staff in setting up the machines in the lab. However, workshop participants can use the specs to set up a duplicate of the working environment for the workshop on their own computers if they wish.

 

Tools below have versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Ideally, the workshop lab will have both Windows and Mac machines to suit users' preferences.


 

(A) Software to be pre-installed on lab workstations

 

(B) Workspace folder and resources to be set up in advance on lab workstations

Note: Because some of the programs used in the workshop are command-line tools, it is important for the user to be able to work in a workspace folder as near to the top of the root of the workstation as possible (for the sake of shorter path names and fewer mistakes).

 

(C) Desktop folder to be set up in advance on lab workstations

Workshops benefit greatly from participants having a unified environment where everything is ready to hand and aren't wasting time looking for tools and resources.  So it's important to create the following desktop folder and stock it with shortcuts in advance: