Unix Systems Services

Other Services

Application Software

  1. ITC maintains and updates various public-domain applications software packages, including the MIT X11 distribution, GNU software trees, various mail clients, text editors, and contributed software. These applications are available via the network for use on any University Unix systems. Supported operating systems for these applications include IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics Irix, and Sun Solaris operating systems.


  2. ITC also licenses and makes available various commercial software packages for these Unix platforms. Licensing conditions vary among products.

Unix Printing Services

A large number of printers, both public and privately owned, are scattered around grounds. Folks access ITC administered Unix systems, such as blue.unix.Virginia.EDU, from a lot of different locations and need to send print jobs to nearby printers. Therefore, most ITC Unix systems have a large number of printers configured on them. Click here to see the list.

If you would like to send jobs to your printer from ITC Unix systems using Unix printing commands, then please fill out this form. Your printer will be added to ITC Unix systems, including the print server print.itc.Virginia.EDU, which handles most Unix printing.

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