The ColumbiaNet Stations are running Linux with Xorg and Window Maker. The web browser includes support for viewing the following languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Vietnamese, Thai. ColumbiaNets can be easily customized for specific locations, e.g, your department would like to use a different homepage or button. Email cnet-dev@columbia.edu for more information.

The ColumbiaNet kiosks maintained by CUIT have the following software installed:

• Acrobat Reader: View and print PDF files
• Codeweaver Crossover Plugin: Run MS Windows Plugins on Linux
• Firefox: Web browser
• Flash: Flash multimedia plugin
• gsview: Postscript document viewer
• Java Runtime Environment Plug-in: Java
• Microsoft Excel Viewer: MS Excel Spreadsheet Viewer
• Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer: PowerPoint Presentation Viewer
• Microsoft Word Viewer: MS Word Document Viewer
• Mplayer: Movie player
• QuickTime Plugin: Play QuickTime .mov, .qt, .mpg
• Real Player: Real media viewer
• Secure Shell Telnet: SSH and Telnet
• Shockwave: Shockwave multimedia plugin
• Windows Media Player: View .wma, .asf files