Legacy BU Linux File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service point to be decommissioned 10/1
Effective Thursday October 1, BU Linux 5 FTP service point “linst.bu.edu” will retired. The decommissioning of this service point is part of a larger initiative to retire legacy Andrew File System (AFS) components at BU. A recent activity review shows this service point to be unused and anticipate not impact from this change. Current package…
Resolved: Mainframe Applications unavailable.
Mainframe applications including Kuali Coeus, Data Warehouse and OnBase were unavailable. Full service has been restored….
CentOS 5.4 Update to BU Linux Monde
The porting and testing of the CentOS 5.4 software update to BU Linux Monde has been completed. All the software packages have been placed in the updates areas and have been released to the general community. The update contains both security and bug fixes. With this new kernel comes a new feature – FUSE :…
Why BU Linux
The base number of packages for BU Linux is over 1200, the number that are specifically modified for the BU environment is over 500. (Note: this number includes packages requested by users ported from Fedora distributions.) Each major update contains about 300 updated packages from CentOS and of these, about 50 need to be updated…
Zodiac going from 4.5s to 4.8
CentOS has finally released their version 4.8 update. We are porting and testing the new packages for Zodiac. There are about 160 updated packages, about 25 of which have specific modifications for BU Linux 4.5s. We will be releasing batches of these packages over the next two weeks. You should note that there is a…
R statistics package available
BU Linux 5.3 release includes the statistics application R, along with many popular R packages. R is a complete open source replacement to the proprietary S-Plus statistical package. And, if you’re currently using a spreadsheet for numerical analysis, you may find R to be a more powerful and more reliable choice. “R is a language…