Re: [OS:N:] Linux in Universities

[Dennis Brown <darkcreations@sbcglobal.net>]

I noticed when I went to the RHTOUR yesturday, there were a lot of people 
using Linux at work there in St. Louis.  Like I said, we are a few years 
behind.  I've been debating on doing a cross-platform professional type of 
experience (I would only have to take 3 test for the Admin cert from "you 
know who") since it seems that "other company", has most companies stuck with 
their OS.  I could see where no company would want to completely switch over 
losing the money they spent on EULAs and such, but they need to at least get 
Linux workstations incorperated here.  Another reason is that we have a lack 
of Linux users that know how to do more than play games, and browse the 
internet.  I guess our demand is too low now.

	I've been thinking of migrating to St. Louis, since 1, it's one of my 
favorite cities, and 2, there does seem to be a lot of Linux around there. 
I'm thinking staying here would be a somewhat good idea to try to make people 
aware that Linux is a real issue that companies need to notice.  On the down 
side, they pay pennies here for just about any IT job.

On Thursday 07 November 2002 19:48, MET wrote:
> I can see why that would be true, however, at least at Syracuse
> University its not quite so.  The 'big' machines are all running old
> versions of Solaris and are slowly being upgraded to FreeBSD and RH
> Linux, we lose our last final mainframe this semester.  And believe it
> or not, 99% of our labs are running Windows (a bootable mix btw
> 98/NT/2k).  The few labs that aren't generally run Solaris, which, like
> the servers, needed replacement years ago.
>
> ~ Matthew
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> What I have noticed here in ST. Louis--and please someone correct me if
> needed--is that schools that have been in computers for a while, have
> unix and a mix of platforms but those that started computer programs
> recently are all windows based.
>
> Sivakumaran Raman wrote:
> > I am a University of Minnesota student (in the MS
> > Program in Health Informatics) and I am proud to say
> > that the situation here in the Computer Science
> > department is completely different from the scenario
> > in LA that Michael Tiemann posted about. The
> > University of Minnesota uses mainly UNIX (Solaris
> > actually) and Linux in its labs. Students are
> > encouraged to use the command line and get freedom
> > from GUI and Windows dependence.
> >
> > Siv Raman
> >
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