Facilitized Fedora Core 5

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Facilitized Fedora Core 5

• SCS AdminsAugust 8, 2005bethlynn_at_cs.cmu.edu

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SCS Facilities Announcements

• New AC units deployed
• Grad student 2006-2007 deploy on schedule
• Immigration Course Schedule
• HCII on Aug 24
• RI on Aug 21
• CSD, to be scheduled

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SCS Facilities Personnel

• Mark Held hired for Unix Engineering Manager
• Philip Dye is now a Unix programmer
• We are still hiring
• Oracle Applications Developer
• Web Applications Developer

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Agenda

• Facilitized Linux history
• FC5 design goals
• Whats included and whats not
• Some things you will notice
• Hardware support
• Special laptop considerations
• Deployment schedule
• Be a beta tester!

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Facilitized Linux History

• RedHat 4.2 August 1996
• RedHat 5.2 July 1998
• RedHat 6.2 June 2000
• RedHat 7.1 May 2001
• RedHat 8.0 (RH9) May 2003
• Fedora Core 3 August 2005
• Fedora Core 5 August 2006

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FC5 Design Goals

• Support newer hardware
• Upgrade FC3 features in parallel
• Use more vendor packages
• Make it easier to port our environment to new OS
  releases

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FC5 Design Goals

• We have moved to vendor packages where practical
  and where it does not pose a conflict/risk (see
  list later on)
• We have tried to integrate our local changes into
  portable formats where possible (i.e. PAM)
• But /usr/local will still be under depot control!

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Whats Included

• We started with everything
• But

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Whats not included

• evolution
• httpd, mysql, postgresql, php
• Emacs/xemacs, tex/latex
• samba, netatalk, tftp-server
• unnecessary network services
• yum, up2date
• Kerberos, openssh, ftp, telnet,finger (local
  versions)

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Some things you will notice

• Graphical login (several WM choices)
• Sendmail, not MMDF (Just like FC3)
• Newer OpenOffice, firefox, etc.
• Evince for .pdf and .ps documents

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Hardware Support

• Kernel is 2.6 based
• SATA disks fully supported
• Better CD-RW support
• Better multimedia support
• Better USB support (memory keys, especially)
• ALSA sound support

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Laptop Considerations

• Wireless support using ipw21,200 drivers (built
  into kernel without firmware)
• Both recommended laptops work (IBM T43/Dell
  D610)
• 20 gig minimum commitment to Linux

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Deployment Schedule

• Beta release now
• SSH/SSHD works!
• telnet/telnetd working with Kerberos
• Many misc. collections missing
• Omega release by mid August (for Grad Student PCs)

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Be a Beta Tester

• We are soliciting people to participate in the
  Beta release
• Please provide feedback
• Contact help_at_cs.cmu.edu

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Demo Portion

• Please feel free to ask questions
• at this point or
• during the demo session