As the department's SSH gateways are becoming increasingly important for users wishing to access the compute clusters, update their personal web pages and for reading email using non-Windows mail clients, the SSH gateways hosted in Huxlet 131 are currently being given a facelift as all of these have been running old operating system versions for years.
aachen has already been updated from FreeBSD 7.1 to 8.2 and cathedral will shortly be updated from SuSE 9.3 to OpenSuSE 12.1 followed by an upgrade for hessian (from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to Fedora 16).