Linux in the Chemistry Department

Welcome to our Linux information pages. We currently have about 130 Linux machines in the Chemistry department here, serving as everything from desktops to webservers to computing clusters.

So, you would like to:

Access the Network

• How to check your e-mail from Linux
• Accessing data from Windows machines in Linux
• Connecting to the network via Wi-fi and PPTP

Maintain your system

• Recommended UNIX post-installation steps
• Recommended Linux applications for various purposes
• Installing software in Linux
• Adding a disk to a Linux machine
• Accessing your Windows partitions from Linux
• Accessing your Linux partitions from Windows
• Patching your Linux machine, including configuring automatic updates.
• Start backing up your system using CUEB

Setup authentication

• Using sudo to run commands as root
• Configure my machine to authenticate with the IU Network using Kerberos

Vendor Specific Support Documents

• Which Linux distribution should you pick?
• Supported Linux Distributions within IU Chemistry
• SuSE Linux
• Red Hat Linux, including Fedora
• Knoppix Linux, a bootable CD based Linux distribution.

Learn More

• Linux Training Syllabus
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