Research Workstations - default software loads

A standard Research computer will have the following software installed, depending on the platform.

This page is for listing purpose only, not for installation instructions.

Windows XP

For 32-bit platforms, Windows XP Professional (x86, Corporate VLK edition) is the ONLY officially supported Windows operating system.

Standard Package

• Device drivers, including printers
• The KMPlayer
  • supports VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime
• Microsoft DirectX Runtimes 9.0c (Mar-2009)
• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
• Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 2009
• Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
• Mozilla Firefox
• Filezilla Client
• Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) 6
• 7Zip
• Sassafras K2 Keyserver Client
• McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7
• Nero 7 Essentials Edition
• Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Edition SP2
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection / Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
  • Important installation instructions are available here
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 9
  • This is for reading PDF documents, while Acrobat Professional is for creating/editing.
  • Install Acrobat Reader AFTER Creative Suite 3/4
• Adobe Updates
  • launch from the Help menu in any Creative Suite applications
• Cycling 74 MAX/MSP/Jitter

On Demand

• AtlasTi
• iTunes & Quicktime (Bundled together)
• Google Sketchup
• Maya - Instructions here
• Mozilla Thunderbird email client http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
• Mozilla Sunbird calendar client http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
• SolidWorks Office Premium
• Microsoft Visio 2007 Professional
• OpenOffice 3 http://download.openoffice.org/
• WinSCP http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
  • Dream, for one day: include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser

Fun Extras

• Google Earth http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Linux

Complete install Ubuntu

• Auto-update
• Both KDE and GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
• Development tools
  • Eclipse (Java & C++ support)
• Mozilla Firefox
• K3B for cd/dvd writing

Other distributions of Linux are also available - just ask! We often have SuSE, and Gentoo on-hand, but Fedora and others are easy to obtain. We can help with dual-boot setups, or provide LiveCDs (which don't actually install, but rather let you test-drive Linux).

Mac OS-X

Complete install of OS 10.4 with all updates, XCode Tools

• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe ImageReady
• Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe GoLive CS
• Adobe Illustrator
• Final Cut Pro HD
• K2 client http://www.sassafras.com/k2/revisions/downloads.html
  • local Mac copy
  • point to research-keyserver.iat.sfu.ca
• Microsoft Office for Mac
• Mozilla Firefox
• Stuffit Expander (StuffItExpander 12.0.1 local .dmg copy)
• Nikon Capture
• Nikon View