Linux Lab

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The computer science lab in the basement of Olin.

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[edit] Hardware

The Linux Lab has been updated for the Fall 2008 semester.

The new machines are Dell Optiplex 755s with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with dual cores of 3.00GHz. The systems have 2GB of RAM.

[edit] Software

The new lab is made up of 10 brand new Dell's running Ubuntu 8.04. I should have a test machine set up by June 26th, 2008 for CSC faculty testing.

[edit] OS & Software Upgrades

Ubuntu is based off of Debian, so we get the excellent `apt` tool for software updates. Only privileged users will have access to initiate these updates, but I will make sure the machines are updated at least once a month.

Ubuntu 8.10 is due to be released in October. Around that time, I'll upgrade one machine and allow students to test for a week or so to look for issues before upgrading the rest.

[edit] Installed and confirmed working

I'm being explicit with version numbers in this listing in case you need an older version of something installed. Usually things have backwards compatibility, but it never hurts to ask.

  • Ubuntu 8.04
  • OpenJDK 6.0 + documentation
  • Python 2.5
  • Firefox 3 with Firebug plugin
  • Eclipse 3.3 with Jigloo visual editor, GreenUML and Subclipse
  • Mars SPIM Simulator
  • GIMP 2.4.5
  • Subversion and git command line tools
  • RapidSVN
  • Netbeans 6.0.1
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
  • Audacity
  • Text Editors (vim, emacs, gEdit, etc.)
  • Sqlite3, Mysql client, PostgreSQL client
  • GNOME Do 0.4

[edit] List of Clients

The client names are ... darn I cannot remember them! Help!

[edit] Requesting Additional Software

If either students of faculty would like additional packages installed on the machines, please enter a helpdesk call at http://helpdesk.centre.edu with the category as `Software` and OS as `Linux`. Most packages are in the standard Ubuntu repositories, and should be a very quick install. Manual installs of packages might take a bit more time, depending on my schedule and potential for breakage.

[edit] Oldham's Needy Notes

  • Samba running
  • svn setup
  • JDK source installed
  • dos2unix

[edit] Luke's Notes

Nothing to see here. Move along, please.

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