SUCS history | History / 1998-1999

Committee

President: Denis Walker (Dez)
Treasurer: Rhys Jones (Rhys)
Secretary: Steve Hill (FireFury)

Events

28/10/1998 - galaxy.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded from RedHat 4.1 to 5.1
09/11/1998 - sucs.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded from RedHat 4.2 to 5.1
25/11/1998 - mud.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded to RedHat 5.2 and brought into service
02/12/1998 - SUCS sells RedHat Linux 5.2 on two CDs (i386 and source) at Ł3.50 per CD
??/12/1998 - galaxy.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded from RedHat 5.1 to 5.2
26/01/1999 - great-atuin.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded to RedHat 5.2
27/01/1999 - sunrise.sucs.swan.ac.uk upgraded to RedHat 5.2 and renamed to klatch
29/01/1999 - mud.sucs.swan.ac.uk reinstalled to "try and stop it crashing every other day"
30/01/1999 - SUCS joins Project Bovine, a distributed.net project to crack the RSA Labs RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge
05/02/1999 - Nominations open for 1999/2000 committee elections
08/02/1999 - SUCS Room (3rd Floor, SU Building) opens to members
19/02/1999 - djelibebi.sucs.swan.ac.uk donated by jezz
20/02/1999 - djelibebi.sucs.swan.ac.uk Brought online, running RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36
25/02/1999 - SUCS AGM
01/03/1999 - djelibebi.sucs.swan.ac.uk kernel upgrade to 2.2.2
05/03/1999 - Dez's photos of the SUCS Room
??/??/1999 - FireFury's photos of the SUCS room
??/??/1999 - SUCS hosts live coverage of the Micromouse competition held at Swansea Uni
20/04/1999 - Snapshot of SUCS website
05/06/1999 - Beach Party Photos

Documents

28/11/1998 - SUCS RedHat 5.2 CD Labels
28/11/1998 - SUCS RedHat 5.2 CD Inlays

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Hardware

This list was correct as of 21/04/1999

sucs.sucs.swan.ac.uk

sucs

Processor: AMD K6 166MHz
RAM: 64MB
Storage: 1.96GB IDE HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.1
Kernel: 2.0.35
IP Addresses: 137.44.19.200, 137.44.10.1, 137.44.10.65, 137.44.10.129
Services: Web, FTP, Telnet, Mail, SSH, X Windows, Samba, NFS, dhcpd

mud.sucs.swan.ac.uk

mud

Processor: Sun IPC
RAM: 16MB
Storage: 1GB SCSI HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35
IP Address: 137.44.10.2
Services: RC5DES cracking client, Telnet, SSH

galaxy.sucs.swan.ac.uk, sugalaxy.swan.ac.uk

galaxy

Processor: 386 40MHz -> 486DX4/100
RAM: 8MB
Storage: 300MB IDE HDD, 87MB SCSI HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35
IP Address: 137.44.10.3
Services: FTP, Telnet, Milliways, SSH

djelibebi.sucs.swan.ac.uk

Processor: 486 DX2 80HMz
RAM: 16MB
Storage: 200MB IDE HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.2.2
IP Address: 137.44.10.4
Services: RC5DES cracking client, Telnet, SSH

klatch.sucs.swan.ac.uk (formerly sunrise.sucs.swan.ac.uk)

Processor: Sun IPC
RAM: 12MB
Storage: 200MB SCSI HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35
IP Address: 137.44.10.5
Services: RC5DES cracking client, Telnet, SSH

ankh.sucs.swan.ac.uk

Processor: Sun SPARCstation 2
RAM: 16MB
Storage: 100MB SCSI
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35

morpork.sucs.swan.ac.uk

Processor: Sun SPARCstation 2
RAM: 16MB
Storage: 300MB SCSI
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35

great-atuin.sucs.swan.ac.uk

Processor: Sun SPARCstation 2
RAM: 36MB
Storage: 1.2GB SCSI HDD
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.33
IP Address: 137.44.10.130
Services: Telnet, SSH, NFS, dhcpd, X11

berilia, tubul, great-tphon, jerakeen

Processor: Sun SLC SPARCstation
RAM: 16MB
Storage: None
Operating System: RedHat Linux 5.2
Kernel: 2.0.35
Display: 17" mono