• BU Linux and Solaris operating systems
• Microsoft Windows operating system

BU Linux and Solaris operating systems

We use and support BU Linux on our linux workstations. It is a re-packaged RedHat distribution with customizations to take advantage BU resources.

In addition to the BU Linux operating system, we also support the Solaris operating system on Sun workstations. We currently support Solaris versions 2.6 and higher.

Along with the standard software packages distributed with BU Linux and Solaris, we also support the following software in the Linux/Solaris environments:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Netscape web browser
• Mozilla web browser
• LaTex
• Apache web servers on www.cs.bu.edu and cs-people.bu.edu
• Altera Max-Plus and Quartus II design software
• VMware Workstation (on licensed machines) (installation instruction)

Microsoft Windows operating system

The CS department also uses and supports the Microsoft Windows operating system. We currently support Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional.

Along with the operating system we also support the following software packages:

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• FileMaker Pro
• Ghostscript and Ghostview
• Hummingbird Exceed
• Jasc Media Center
• Jasc Paintshop Pro
• MiKTeX (a Windows version of LaTeX)
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Macromedia Flash
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Visual Studio .Net
• Norton Anti-Virus
• Panda Anti-Virus
• SecureCRT
• Tera Term Pro
• WinSSH
• WinZip
• X-Win32