1.4 UNIX OS Support at Fermilab

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.4 UNIX OS Support at Fermilab

The Fermilab Computing Division supports many different flavors of UNIX operating systems. The Computing Division currently supports the following platform and operating system combinations:

Silicon Graphics running IRIX
IBM running AIX
Digital running Digital UNIX (OSF1)
Sun Microsystems running Solaris (SunOS)
Intel PCs running redhat LINUX (this is just becoming supported as this manual goes to print)

[Missing image]There is a command uname (also funame at Fermilab) that returns information about the current system. The OS name returned by these commands for Sun is SunOS and for Digital is OSF1. Note that these are different from the names under which the vendors now market these operating systems.

For the currently supported releases of the operating systems, C compilers and FORTRAN compilers, refer to the document DR0010 (see section 1.6.1 for information on how to locate Fermilab documents). This information changes frequently.