In 1996 the New Mexico Tech Computer Center (TCC) adopted Gutinteg to maintain its UNIX clients. Gutinteg was originally designed and written by Michael Fisk who worked for the TCC at the time. It was simple to use, and could be run by our student Help Desk employees. Over the years, it has been upgraded and retooled to support more features and more operating systems. It now supports SunOS, Solaris, Linux and Windows95.
In the summer of 1997, the TCC began moving from a Windows3.11/Novell environment to a Windows95/Samba environment. The TCC had been using a program called dos-integ to maintain its DOS clients. This program simply copied from a networked drive, the needed DOS-6.22 files and enough networking files to access the Windows3.11 installation on the Novell server. It would essentially re-install a DOS machine in a few minutes with a minimum of intervention. We wanted to maintain this level of simple installation and maintenance when we moved to Windows95. Gutinteg seemed the logical answer.