Friday Night Gaming System

This project provides an isolated, containerized environment for UWCS event Friday Night Gaming on the department's systems.

Usage

First install the host requirements onto you user account:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UWCS/fng/main/install.sh | sh

Once the installation is complete, start the environment using (Custom Script) on the user login screen (GDM).

Details

Installer

The installer script sets up the following components on your host:

• Distrobox: Manages the container environment.
• .xsession - Custom script to start the gaming environment.
• .config/containers/storage.conf - Configuration file for Podman storage.
• .vnc/xstartup - Configuration file to enable remote access to the container via VNC.

Image

The container image is based on Docker's Arch Linux. It includes patched in Nvidia support from the host through Distrobox. SystemD is executed within the container to maintain a sandboxed environment.

The Dockerfile handles container building, install system components here.

The image is built via a Github Actions workflow and packaged into GHCR, run the workflow via dispatch trigger to update.

Arbitrary Files can be added to the host image via system-files.

/home/fng is used as the home directory.