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The main reason for the changeover, Davis said, is to enable a hardware upgrade, abandoning the nearly-obsolete microprocessors currently used.
The transition, which has been in planning for a year and a half, will take the old Unix-based servers out of commission. Kevin S. Davis ’98, the coordinator of residential computing, said Linux—a no-cost brand of Unix that has gained popularity in...
“Lots of programs have been developed that want to run on Linux,” said Davis, who is also a Crimson editor. “It’s been a wonderful development over the last decade. We’ve seen other universities make great...
The switch, which began last Friday, has been mostly smooth sailing except for a few glitches, Davis said. He said the largest transition-related problem reported thus far involved transferring files using SecureFTP, which the systems did not support. By midday Saturday, the Linux administration group at HASCS had it...
The most apparent difference between the two for the typical user, Davis said, is a warning message that pops up during the login process, reminding unauthorized users that they may not use the system.