Welcome to the Sun workstation environment in the College of Engineering at Bucknell University. There are two Sun laboratories in the Dana and Breakiron Engineering Buildings: Dana 213 and Breakiron 167. Dana 213 is a college laboratory and is open for public use when no classes have been reserved. Breakiron 167 is a limited access lab for use by Computer Science faculty and junior and senior CS students. The Dana 213 lab has 25 SunBlade 2000 workstations, and the Breakiron 167 CS SUN lab has 5 SunBlade 1000 workstations. There are also 6 Sun servers available for you to remotely connect to: spectrum.eg.bucknell.edu, pollux.eg.bucknell.edu, castor.eg.bucknell.edu, athena.eg.bucknell.edu, zeus.eg.bucknell.edu, hera.eg.bucknell.edu.

This manual serves as an introduction to the facilities available on the Suns including the graphical environment, called GNOME and the UNIX command line. In the following sections you will learn how to access the Sun workstations and how to use them in creating, compiling, and running programs. You will also learn about the basic UNIX commands and the facilities for printing files. This manual was written with the first time user in mind. It is written in a straight forward manner so you can understand the material and can quickly become comfortable using the Sun workstations.