New World

In the current revamp-CSE's-IT-infrastructure project, the term New World refers to a new way of doing things as compared to the Old World. In particular:

• Use of cfengine to manage a minimal amount of installed software and configuration files (mainly in /etc),
• Use of Debian's apt family of tools to automatically manage installation and upgrading of software packages,
• Naming of servers after geographical location and function (e.g., nw-syd-login1 being a New World login server in one of Amazon AWS' Sydney datacentres) and labs after musical instruments or instrument types (remains the same),
• QEMU/KVM to virtualise hosts,
• Additional Debian package installation controlled by teaching staff rather than CSG,
• An extra files directory on user-loginable hosts, such as lab computers, whose contents are controlled by teaching staff rather than CSG.