We use a standard system image based upon the host OS. Some of our labs use dual-boot Linux & Windows configuration. Access is managed using Active Directory accounts with home directories stored on a centralized server. (see Infrastructure) We presently use the Xubuntu 22.04 LTS as our preferred distribution and Windows 11 Education Professional Edition. When reporting an issue, or in the event you were asked to access a lab machine remotely, the labs machines follow simple naming convention: room number concatenated with ‘s’ followed by a 2 digit number; for example: mct162s01.

Below is a summary listing of the installed software available on most of our departmental machines:

Linux System Configuration Blender Eclipse Emacs Edge Firefox Ghidra SRE Framework GITG GODOT Gradle JetBrains IDEs CLion IntelliJ IDEA PyCharm RubyMine Libre Office MARS Mips Emulator MATLAB MPICH2 MPLab X SQL Developer VS Code Wireshark Languages Supported: Assembly C, C++ Cobol Fortran Haskell Java Lisp Pascal Perl Python

Windows System Configuration Autodesk Software: Inventor Professional Chrome Edge Firefox Ghidra SRE Framework JetBrains IDEs CLion IntelliJ IDEA PyCharm RubyMine Microsoft Office MATLAB Python Tortoise GIT / SVN VS Code Wireshark Languages Supported: Java J# C, C++, C# Lisp Python Only In Specific Labs Autodesk Software: Civil 3D Bentley Software Systems Code Composer Studio MPLab X OrCAD SolidWorks Xilinx Vivado