The standards can also serve as a guide for labs and other units when making software development and purchase recommendations. At this time no UNIX standards are in place. However, a list of currently available UNIX software on Athena machines is available. While support levels have not been defined for this software, any comments on what should and should not be supported are welcome. UNIX system administrators may also be interested in the Sun resources page which include the current Sun license agreements .
Units are free to choose whatever software and hardware they wish.
The hardware and software standards setting process was created in October of 1994. That document defines various levels of support that will be provided by CATS as the central support organization. There is also a standards process flowchart that was developed for the purpose of establishing standards. For now, comments regarding any of these standards should be addressed to Eric Goodman , who will forward them to the CATS standards committee.