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A new version of the HP-UX operating system has now been certified by the Information Technology (IT) Division. The certification process has been described previously, for instance in the CNL 224, see URL: http://consult.cern.ch/cnls/224/art_cert.html

The version certified is HP-UX 10.20 ACE; all the major programs and libraries (AFS, ASIS, CERNLIB, HEPiX scripts, SUE, UMTF recommended tools...) should work fine on it. More information about this version (including how to install it at CERN) is available on the Web; see URL: http://wsspinfo.cern.ch/file/cert-hp1020ace.html

The major advantages of HP-UX 10.20 ACE compared to 10.20 are:

• it runs on all the hardware used at CERN, including recent models like the J2240 or the B132L+,
• it contains NFS version 3,
• it contains all the Y2K patches recommended by HP,
• it contains a large number of patches (more than 200) to fix many defects of the base HP-UX 10.20 operating system.

All users of HP-UX 10.* systems are encouraged to upgrade to this certified version.

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