University of Toronto Computing and Network Services

Unix Systems Group

Systems Manager:

    Ted Sikorski           978-6602




USG staff members:

    Tom Molnar (supervisor)  978-8853
    P Kern                   978-6946
    Evgueni Martynov         978-4595
    Eric Xiang               978-0222
    John Calvin              978-6878
    Jae Chung                978-1255

The USG is currently dealing with, but not restricted to, the following flavours of Unix (or Unix-like operating systems):

    AIX
    Red Hat Linux
    FreeBSD
    Solaris (yes, finally)

For the convenience of those on-campus some of the currently popular operating systems are mirrored by UTORmirror.

One of USG's responsibilities is to support and maintain the CNS general server GPU (General Purpose Unix).
Both GPU and MVS are systems with a long history at the University (MVS is supported by the IBM services group).

Another of USG's responsibilities was to build and manage the first firewalls protecting the new SAP systems running on the first IBM SP/2 platform in Canada.

Based on the firewall experience mentioned above, yet another of USG's responsibilities is to support the campus open source firewall project.

Check in USG Technical Notes for any documentation that the USG group might have had the energy to bother to put together.

O'Reilly has made freely available online Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution which provides a number of views of how things have come to pass with regards to open source operating systems.

For questions or problems, please contact the group via the e-mail address usg AT cns.utoronto.ca. instead of contacting specific individuals (individuals might be away on vacation, off sick, or just simply unreachable at any given moment).