B.2. System Software

We developed many examples in this book using computer systems that were already set up and being utilized for other purposes. No other special modifications were necessary.

All of the learners obviously need to know either the fully qualified domain name of the form computer.department.organization.tld or the IP number of the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn for the Itanium host.

Everyone should have a personal account. Ordinary individual user accounts with no special privileges are entirely suitable for the programming exercises suggested in this book. It may also be worthwhile to establish a group library account if some work will start from template or data files.

B.2.1. Linux

While working on this book, we used various systems ...

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