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Boston University Linux is based on Fedora Core Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment.

Weve added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with the way things are set up here, and added some applications that we think you might like to have.

The server edition of BU Linux provides a modern, stable, and robust server platform suitable for long-term deployment in many roles throughout the university.

Supported Hardware

Currently, only i686-class machines are supported. This includes almost everything from Intels Pentium Pro on. AMD64 and Intel EM64T systems will work fine using their 32-bit mode. Watch for a 64-bit version later this summer.

Specific Notes on Server Applications

Mail Server:

BU Linux 4.5 Server Edition (Zodiac) includes three different choices of Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for your mail server. Each of these open source servers has its unique strengths, and you can install one or more and use the utility system-switch-mail to choose which is active.

The default is IBMs Postfix, which is designed from scratch to be secure and easily configurable. On a newly-installed BU Linux machine, Postfix is configured to exchange mail on the local machine and to send mail out to other systems, but not receive mail from the network. For this reason, outgoing mail from global BU accounts (those matching valid BU login names and with the proper UID) will appear to come from @bu.edu rather than @hostname.bu.edu. Local users (including system accounts) will retain the hostname, but without reconfiguration, any replies will bounce. Changing the system to accept mail is easy; see the BU Linux web site for details.

For the maximum flexibility and for compatibility with existing configurations (and with existing expertise), we also include the traditional standard Sendmail. And, if you have particular special needs, you may find that the new Exim MTA fits your situation best.

No matter which MTA you choose, please contact us if you need any assistance. With so many options available, the situation can be confusing, and its unfortunately easy for an accidentally misconfigured system to become a target for spam relayers. We have significant expertise at configuring both Postfix and Sendmail in a variety of situations, and will be glad to help.

FTP Server:

This release of BU Linux provides two options for FTP. The first is vsftpd, which is designed to be simple and secure. This is the most appropriate for almost all situations, but if you require more power and flexibility, we also include ProFTPd, which has many more options and a configuration syntax similar to that of the Apache web server.

Please also remember that FTP is an insecure protocol and that any passwords used travel over the network in plain text. For this reason, its best to avoid anything but anonymous FTP. For user-authenticated file transfer, use SSH and SFTP. (SFTP is provided by the OpenSSH server and enabled by default.)

Web Server:

The web server software included in BU Linux is the industry-standard Apache httpd. We also include PHP 4.3 and many other useful tools for building a web server.
If you need to provide authenticated access to web services to BU users, please contact us and we will provide you with our University-standard Weblogin module. This provides a powerful and flexible means of single-signon access control for the BU user community and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to provide this for your users.

Database Server:

BU Linux includes MySQL 4.1 and PostgreSQL 7.4. For less demanding SQL applications, we also provide SQLite 3, which provides simple SQL databases without the management overhead of running a SQL server.

GRIA (Grid Resources for Industrial Applications) is Grid middleware that enables use of the Grid in a secure, interoperable and flexible manner.
Security
GRIA uses off-the-shelf Web Services technology and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security.
Trust
GRIA supports well established B2B processes & trust models.
Ease of use
GRIA is designed to support leading-edge and legacy application codes, and client-side applications can be easily written using the GRIA API.
Quality of Service
GRIA resource models allow service levels to be matched to clients needs.
Support
GRIA is supported through an open source community and on a commercial basis.
Enhancements:
- This release provides significant new features and usability enhancements to both the management packages and the client.
- The core infrastructure stack has been further aligned with key Web Service security and policy specifications.
- New services include a Membership Service, Registry Service, and an improved SLA service.

Bellagio is a sample implementation of OpenMAX IL for Linux.
It enables software developers and ISVs to familiarize themselves with the OpenMAX IL API and to develop their own OpenMAX multimedia and streaming media components for mobile devices, including codecs, video I/O, and audio mixers.
Included sample components comply with the OpenMAX base and interoperability profiles and can be tunnelled together.
Main features:
- a shared library with the IL core and a "reference" OpenMAX component
- a number of OpenMAX components which pass Khronos conformance tests
- a set of GStreamer plugins that use the IL API (not available yet)
Enhancements:
New video components:
- ffmpeg based MPEG4/H.264 decoder
- color converter component YUV -> RGB
- video renderer based on devFB
New audio component:
- audio file reader based on ffmpeg audio format
- volume component
Fixed known bugs:
- FFMPEG audio decoder now works on FC6 and other distributions with the latest ffmpeg release (0.4.9-0.35.20070204)
Known pending bugs:
- some ogg streams can not be decoded properly
- the tunneling between file reader, mp3 dec based on ffmpeg - alsa sink ends in a deadlock sometimes.
- This behavior has been detected some times using FC6 and UBUNTU, not with the FC4
Full list of components:
Audio:
- ogg decoder based on libvorbis (stand alone components, and multiple roles component)
- mp3 decoder based on mad decoder
- mp3 decoder based on ffmpeg (multiple roles component)
- volume component
- alsa audio sink
- ffmpeg audio file reader (to be used with mp3 ffmpeg decoder)
Video:
- MPEG4 decoder based on ffmpeg (multiple roles component)
- H.264 decoder based on ffmpeg (multiple roles component)
- Color converter based on ffmpeg
- video renderer based on devFB
- Major additions to the 0.2
- New port classes
The components are:
- multiple formats audio decoder component that supports mp3 and ogg audio formats
- alsa sink component
- all the other components are NOT compatible with the new architecture.
- They have been removed and will be ported to the new architecture in a further delivery

Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations RubySode (Sode.rb) is a Ruby program to generate a Ruby program to solve a single (or a system of) ordinary differential equation(s). A long Taylor series method, pioneered by Prof. Y.F. Chang, who taught at the University of Nebraska in the late 1970s when I was a graduate student there, is used.
The number of Taylor series terms can be specified in the problem file, though it is usually 30.
Enhancements:
- Minir code cleanup. Some tests have been made more meaningful (add, sub, mult, and div).

Linux is an increasingly popular open source Unix-like operating system. These pages arent intended as a general guide (for that, check out our list of resources) but rather information specific to using Linux here at Boston University, and particularly to using our custom distribution, BU Linux.

BU Linux is based on Fedora Core Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment. Weve added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with the way things are set up here, and added some applications that we think you might like to have. For details, see the FAQ.

The NSCL Data Acquisition system is a general purpose nuclear physics data acquisition system for small to medium scale nuclear physics experiments.
NSCL Data Acquisition System can be combined with NSCL SpecTcl to form a powerful online/offline data handling system. It is in use at several university labs and, of course, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
Whats New in 8.1-pre4 Development Release:
- The way the experimental files work has been reorganized.
- Issues in controplush have been fixed.
- More hardware support has been added (preliminary VM-USB support).
Whats New in 8.0-01 Stable Release:
- Make event files readonly as they get finalized.
- Make ~stagearea/complete write protected except when it has to be.
- Fix up 2.6 build so that lib and include get installed... and can be cleaned.
- Fix a bunch of stuff with the 2.6 build that arises on make dist and building from the tarball. (mostly copying stuff from the 8.1 build files.
- Make sure the right compilers link the readout skels.
- Adjust the framework makefile so that template class implementations will get installed in the include directory to allow them to be used in application software.
- Ensure the SBS driver is identical to the 2.6 version of the drive in the 8.1 branch.