Spring 2005 Projects
Xenophilia
- Michael McCabe
- Justin Basigner
- Jeremy Bongio
- Edward Despard
The purpose of this project is to create a Linux distribution that is based around Xen. It will have an easy to use installer and several different tools for configuring and updating domains and services.
Remote Lab Maintenance
- Rouslan Solomakhin
- Rob Tirrel
The purpose of this project is to create lab update scripts that will work from a remote location to help update, and configure systems. They are designed to detect whether they can do things depending on whether a person is logged in.
z/VM GUI
- Jason Herne
- Kevin Roberts
- Aaron Hughes
- Andrew Bingham
The goal of this project is to create a program that a z/VM administrator can use to easily and efficiently monitor and manage a z/VM environment on an IBM eServer zSeries mainframe. They wish to provide an easy and intuitive user interface in such a way that the end user will not need to know a great deal about CP/CMS commands or z/VM in general in order to perform basic system administration tasks.
Graphical Package Installer for Gentoo
- Jason Herne
- Aaron Hughes
- Kevin Roberts
The goal of this project was to create a more user friendly graphical package management system for Gentoo Linux, that will be based on the already existing portage system. The resulting applications main focus will be ease of use for beginning and intermediate computer users. The purpose of this focal point is to make Gentoo Linux more appealing to a large group of computer users. We hope that with this application managing program installations and updates will become easier. Linux will become a more viable option for home and business users who wish to try an alternate operating system and destktop environment.