Is this question being asked because Apple moved away from the whole "cat-themed" OS naming convention? I think the Nyan Cat had it's own linux for awhile...maybe you could just use that? On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Jason Bengtson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We have some stuff hosted on a CentOS virtual server, but I have been > growing increasingly fond of Manjaro. It's built on top of the excellent > Arch linux distro, but provides greater usability. I've got it on a > research machine at work and on my Linux-Fu machine at home that I've been > using to push through some very processor-intensive php data > wrangling/shaping scripts for our current catalog migration. I'm using the > xcfe desktop and I'm quite happy with it. If I wasn't using Manjaro, I'd > probably be back to using Mint. Bear in mind that Mint and Ubuntu will tend > to have more things built to work seamlessly with them. > > Best regards, > *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* > > Head of Library Computing and Information Systems > Assistant Professor, Graduate College > Department of Health Sciences Library and Information Management > University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center > 405-271-2285, opt. 5 > 405-271-3297 (fax) > [log in to unmask] > http://library.ouhsc.edu > www.jasonbengtson.com > > NOTICE: > This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is > addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or > otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the > intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please > immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed > email address. Thank You. > <[log in to unmask]> > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Exactly. I suppose recipe implied Chef, but I should have explicitly > > mentioned it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Cary > > > > On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > >> It seems to me that you cold accomplish most, if not all, of what you > > > want with a good deployment recipe. > > > > > > Perhaps this is in fact what we are looking for: > > > https://www.getchef.com/chef/. It allows you to set up an OS in a > > > standardized and re-usable way. It would be much more feasible to have > a > > > repo of library-related "recipes" that allow us to have a standard, > > > automated process for setting up common library applications (primarily > > > thinking server here but client is also imaginable). > > >