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...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 recent years—will allow HASCS provide the same services to users, on a smaller budget...
HASCS is losing the employee who managed all user accounts and another, Davis’ supervisor, who managed student and account services. Steen also listed departures from the Instructional Computing Group and the Student Services and Client Services Group. And a member of the three-man Unix personnel—responsible for keeping the servers running and for the upgrades to Linux—will soon depart...
...services followed mid-afternoon, and at 4:30 p.m., all Faculty of Arts and Sciences Unix systems—including course websites and e-mail service—went out, he said...
Meanwhile, Big Blue has more tightly embraced Linux, the grass-roots operating system that Palmisano originally championed inside the company and that is becoming a legitimate threat to both Unix and Microsoft's Windows. IBM's research division, in which the company invests $5 billion a year, is also trying to come up with an "autonomic" technology, so that complex systems can fix themselves, and IBM can serve up technology without spending so much on labor...
...Harvard computer, then cutting e-mail quotas and now brainwashing first years to use a tedious and slow system that runs off an already overburdened Harvard server. Telnet may yet be saved—but only if those who have come to know and love the little unix system preach its values to non-believers and would-be stalkers...