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Today's Operating Systems

Windows, Microsoft

As of September 2013:

Current: Windows 7

New / Upcoming:

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Obsolete: Windows 3, 95, 98, 2000, NT

MacOS, Apple

As of October 2013:

Current: OSX 10.8 – released in 2012. Very good, stable.

Note: In CCB, we never did bother with OS X10.7 installs. We liked 10.6 for a long time. :-)

New - OSX 10.9, Released 10/22/13. Compatibilty Compatibility unknown at this point.

• Even though this OS is "free", please touch base with ChemIT before upgrading. Thank you.
• As the release date, Symantec anti-virus maker does not have a date when they'll have a client ready.

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Linux versions and updates vary tremendously. ChemIT tries to support one or two primary branches and related tools for new work, and update others when possible.

As of Fall 2013:

Current:

• CENT OS 6.4, 64 bit – this is being used for all new Chemistry cluster and workstation builds, along with current compatible cluster management software.

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