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What is Unix?

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.

Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, form the basis of many, if not most, modern computing systems.

The University of Manitoba employs GNU/Linux and Solaris on our Unix login servers.

What is CCU? CCL?

Our Central Computing Unix (CCU) and Linux (CCL) Systems are available for use by all students, staff, and retirees holding a valid UMnetID.

CCL consists of a set of multi-user login servers and a compute cluster running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
There is also a CCU Solaris server for each hardware architectures.

• Information on how to connect to the CCU systems
• Information about IST's computing cluster