System Announcements 18/04/03
Teaching System News
A summary of changes since the last system announcement
- xfig updated to 3.2.4-beta4. More clip art, etc [11/10/02]
- postscript utilities (psnup, ps2eps, unpsfrag etc) updated.
See the online manual pages for details [19/11/02]
- mozilla (a WWW browser) updated
- VNC
installed - provides remote access.
- Java 1.4 installed [6/02/03]
- Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 installed [14/3/03]
- pcre (perl-like regular expression library) installed. Type "man pcre"
for details [14/3/03]
- A new compute server - tw800 - is available for IIB project and research use.
- All the DPO terminals now with many more colours and much faster 3D performance. Some graphics programs (especially screen-dumpers) do not properly handle the greater colour depth and may not work properly.
- New WWW pages on Japanese, C++, HTML, VNC, etc are listed on the
What's New
page
Tim Love