McIDAS Operating Systems Survey Results
This page shows the results from operating system usage surveys issued by SSEC to McIDAS Users’ Group (MUG) site coordinators. The surveys asked which operating systems they are using on their McIDAS-X workstations. The results from the November 2019, October 2017 and September 2015 surveys are summarized in the tables below that show the number of MUG sites that reported using McIDAS-X on the given operating system.
November 2019 Survey
| Operating System | # of Sites | Version(s) |
| Apple macOS | 2 | versions: version numbers not reported |
| Linux (all varieties) | 31 | versions: 3 through 8 are in use; 6 and 7 are most common varieties: 18 sites use RHEL, 18 use CentOS, 4 use Ubuntu |
| Microsoft Windows | 2 | versions: 7 and 10 are in use |
| Sun/Oracle Solaris | 1 | versions: SunOS 5.10 (Solaris 10) is in use |
October 2017 Survey
| Operating System | # of Sites | Version(s) |
| Apple macOS, OS X | 4 | versions: 10.10 and higher are in use |
| Linux (all varieties) | 33 | versions: 4 through 7 are in use; 6 and 7 are most common varieties: 20 sites use RHEL, 17 use CentOS, 6 use Ubuntu |
| Microsoft Windows | 3 | versions: 7 and 10 are in use |
| Sun/Oracle Solaris | 2 | versions: 10 and 11.3 SPARC is in use |
September 2015 Survey
| Operating System | # of Sites | Version(s) |
| Apple Mac OS X | 4 | versions: 10.4 through 10.10 are in use |
| Linux (all varieties) | 34 | versions: 4 through 7 are in use varieties: 24 sites use RHEL, 11 use CentOS, 7 use Ubuntu, 3 use SUSE |
| Microsoft Windows | 4 | versions: 7 and 10 are in use |
| Sun/Oracle Solaris | 2 | versions: only 10 SPARC is in use |