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| About BU Linux
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| Boston University Linux (or BU Linux for short) is a CentOS-based distribution specifically tailored for the Boston University environments. Among the more interesting enhancements are network installation, Kerberos authentication, tight default security, automatic security updates, OpenAFS file system, and extra software applications.
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| 2006-06-17 |
Development Release: BU Linux 4.6 Beta |
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BU Linux, or Boston University Linux, is a Fedora-based distribution specifically tailored for the university environments and enhanced with Kerberos authentication, tight default security, apt-get, OpenAFS file system, and extra software applications. A new development version has been released: "The BU Linux team at the Office of Information Technology is excited to announce a preview release of BU Linux 4.6 (Stormy). While we're still working on some rough edges, this release is generally as it will be for the final gold-seal version available in several weeks, and we encourage you to install it and try it out on your test systems." Read the full release announcement for more details. BU Linux is distributed in the form of small ISO images for network installation; get them from here: stormy32-installer.iso (68.5MB), stormy64-installer.iso (68.9MB).
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Syllable Server
Syllable Server was a small, efficient server operating system built to be similar to Syllable Desktop, but on the Linux kernel. Due to its light weight, Syllable Server was exceptionally suitable as a virtualisation platform for running other operating systems (or multiple instances of itself), using the QEMU emulator.
Status: Discontinued
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