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Linux Fedora and Windows systems tentatively schedule for upgrade:

Fedora Core 3 on all Linux systems.

All systems currently are running Windows XP. Linux systems running or Fedora 3.

5/06 We are planning to upgrade Linux desktops to Fedora Core 5 this summer.

The upgrades will be done in groups (RA/TA, labs, faculty, clusters, cycle servers, etc.)

so we will begin scheduling those groups soon.

A tentative schedule is as follows;

machines in GS228: Starting May 22

machines in RA/TA offices: Starting May 30

machines in faculty offices: Starting July 5

cy cluster (cy01 - cy10): Starting July 17

cl cluster (cl01 - cl32): Starting July 24

machines in GS930: Starting July 30

If the upgrade should be delayed or skipped for any machines, please let us know.

5/05 Fedora Core 3 linux upgrade to all office systems during summer '05,
spim/xspim now on Fedora systems

12/04 Debian systems in Gould 228 replaced with Fedora 3

3/04 -8/04 Fedora Core 3 replacing RedHat v9

5/03 - 9/03 Windows XP, RedHat 9.0

5/22/02 RedHat: 7.3 upgrades begin

6/11/01 Baskerville: OpenSSH 2.9p1

6/4/01 Lecutra: OpenSSH 2.9p1

5/15/01 W2K: SSH 2.3

4/9/01 RedHat: Pine 4.33

4/6/01 RedHat: latex2html and ps2eps added to supported software

4/5/01 Lectura: ghostview 3.5.8

4/5/01 Lectura: pine 4.33
4/5/01 Baskerville: pine 4.33

4/3/01 latex2html and ps2eps added to Lectura supported software

4/3/01 TeX, metafont, gv, and ghostscript updated on Lectura to reflect current Linux versions

3/15/01 Windows Internet Explorer updated to 5.5 on all W2K PC's

3/6/01 Lectura: gv 3.5.8, xfig 3.2.3c

3/2/01 Baskerville: Netscape 4.75, jdk 1.3.0

3/1/01 Lectura: metapost 0.641, Acroread 4.05 installed.
3/1/01 Baskerville: Acroread 4.05 installed.

2/28/01 Baskerville: GNU groff 1.15, gdb 4.18, tar 1.13 installed.

Last updated Monday, 07-Jan-2008 09:32:28 MST, by John Luiten
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