Our central server is called Skynet which was originally set up without any official support from the college authorities. We use the Linux operating system, which is a version of UNIX written by Linus Torvalds.

Once upon a time John Quinn took it upon himself to organise some loose environment within the college. Since then, a reasonably stable system has developed, where the users hang out to hack, chat and relieve any boredom. Skynet is maintained entirely by the students for the students and offers numerous services such as an FTP archive, a WWW site (obviously), USENET access, E-mail and all the other essentials which the college authorities apparently don't have time to provide :). Skynet currently supports somewhere in the region of 200 users.

Skynet is maintained by a highly organised and efficient group of students, divided into the System Administration team, the WWW Administration team and the FTP administration team. Of course we do it all for the users who really appreciate the effort.

The Skynet machine is funded entirely by John Quinn. The Computer Society however would welcome any donations (monetary or hardware) which people or organisations would like to make to further the sake of computing in the University of Limerick. Contact the Computer Society for more information.



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