What's good
The following departmental-level setups should be considered a model to follow at the College level.
Department of Computing
- The laboratories have a varied computing ecosystem. GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows run harmoniously alongside each other.
- Services are provided using Horde IMP webmail, Exim mail server, and the Apache web server.
Department of Mathematics
- Internal servers run Digital/Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux (Debian, Slackware, SuSE and Red Hat) while the departmental web server (ma.ic.ac.uk) runs on a Linux/Apache/MysQL/php/perl platform.
- PCs in teaching cluster rooms are triple-boot (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows) while research is mostly done on Linux, Tru64 and Solaris clusters and workstations.
- The Maths parallel computing facility is composed of 160 machines running FreeBSD.
- Mac OS X is increasingly making an appearance on people's desktops.
- OpenOffice/StarOffice and other non-MS office suites are in use.
- Free and open source email clients such as mutt and pine are widely used.
The College
The following College-wide setups are commendable:
- Public mailing lists are managed by Mailman on a GNU/Linux server running Apache.
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