Summary of Recommendations

The committee members are unanimous in their view that modest steps could be taken by CIT which could be highly beneficial to Unix users in both small and large departments, and which can result in overall cost savings to the University. In brief:

• We recommend that CIT maintain a library - ``/usr/princeton'' - of public domain and site-licensed software for common Unix platforms.
• We recommend that the supported platforms for /usr/princeton include Solaris, Irix, and Linux.
• We recommend steps to be taken by CIT to better coordinate licensing of software.
• We recommend that consideration be given to expansion of the DeSC program to include Linux as an option.
• We recommend that the hardware support available for DeSC hardware be made available for identical hardware running Linux.

These recommendations are expanded upon below.