MIT moving to Linux

[Paul King]

Hello

I guess I should have given this news earlier. Since January, I have had
an Athena account on MIT's computer system. The default dialup (their
term for ssh or telnet) servers this year have recently moved from
Solaris machines to Linux machines. MIT's SIPB has announced that the
Solaris machines will be decomissioned permanently in September in
favour of Linux servers running Ubuntu 9.04 (kernel 2.6.28-18-server).

The Athena accounts are generous, and offer website space that can use
PHP and possibly MySQL, in addition to a separate web space for plain
HTML. I have a "quick-and-dirty" proof of concept that I wrote in PHP:
http://pjk.scripts.mit.edu/lab/index.php -- Just a short bio. It doesn't
do anything that couldn't be done in flat HTML, but there you have it. 

Paul King

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