Recent Software Changes (2005)

  • MANY changes this summer.
  • Bob lab converted from Sun Desktop to Debian linux on PC. Machines are blazing fast.
  • All public labs running Windows 2000 were upgraded to Windows XP. Software selection is same, just updated.
  • Atlantic (Web server) was upgraded from a dual 300 Mhz Sparc to a Sun Fire V240, dual 1 Ghz Sparc with 4 Gigs RAM.
  • Bering (License and application server) was upgraded from a Sun Ultra1 to a Sun Fire V240. Services were consolidated to conserve space.
  • Web updates include Apache 1.3.33 and PHP 5.
  • New print servers in both the CSE network and the EGR network. Should fix the misc timeouts.
  • Adriatic (Public Linux Server) was upgraded from a quad 500Mhz Zeon to a Sun V20z Opteron. Nice!
  • The network drive /soft/sparc (main software for ALL sparcs, servers, etc) had a major overhaul. The following is all the updated software
  • BerkelyDB 4.3, Bash 3, Bind 9.3, SASL 2 (applies to openlap and sendmail), tcl 8.5, freetds 6.3, gdb 6.3, atk 1.9, glib 2.6.4
  • python 2.4.1, samba 3.0.14, openldap 2.2.24, and gnome libs and apps.
  • On the hardware side, an HP Procurve switch was added to server room. Gigabit connections between most servers.
  • On the hardware side, a Cyclade Net KVM and Console server were added to ease administration

 

Recent Software Changes (2002)

  • Aug 6 2002 openssh. Latest version updated for security reasons.
  • Aug 6 2002 vim6.1, Aug 6 09:14 acroread5
  • Aug 3 2002 mutt
  • Jul 20 2002 gcc
  • Jul 15 2002 bind9
  • Jul 8 2002 openldap-2.1.2
  • Jul 8 2002 BerkeleyDB4
  • Jun 19 2002 perl
  • May 1 2002 matlab6p1

    Recent Software Changes (2001)

    • Aug 17 2001 Java 1.3 (Java2) added to /soft/compilers. To use it, add /soft/compilers/j2se/bin to your PATH before /usr/bin
    • Aug 15 2001 Remote unencrypted ftp and telnet connections disabled in favor of using SecureShell
    • June 21 2001 G++ and GCC upgraded to version 3.0

 

 
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