Re: [seul-edu] Linux in Universities

[Samuel Hart <criswell@geekcomix.com>]

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 01:12, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> 
> Quoting Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>: 
>  
> > Eventually I hope to make this a useful resource for anyone 
> > trying to convince their local university that Linux should be  
> > (a) supported by their IT staff,  
>  
> Few Universities do this, which honestly, I think is fine so long as they do 
> not actively oppose Linux or require proprietary software to access certain 
> resources.  Fortunately most universities have LUGs to help people along. 

Actually, we at the University of Arizona Physics Dept. support it. In
fact, we prefer it... and from what I hear, many other depts in our
University do as well.

> > (b) used for infrastructure, 
>  
> I've worked for two university IT departments -- both of which used Linux 
> extensively.  I think you'll find that this is more of the standard than the 
> exception. 

I agree. In the Physics Dept. here we have most of our infrastructure
systems running Linux. There is one ailing NT box, an ailing True64, and
another ailing Solaris... but all are on the chopping block to be
replaced by Linux when we get time enough to devote to them ;-)

> > (c) used as part of the undergraduate cirriculum,  
>  
> Again, *nix has typically dominated computer science departments, well, 
> forever.  Linux has become a much cheaper replacement to proprietary systems 
> and as such is again, becoming the standard. 

While I can't say much for our comp.sci dept, we in Physics use it for
all of our programming courses. Granted, the users typically SSH into
these Linux machines from a Win2k desktop... but they are doing all of
their work on the Linux boxen.

-- 
Sam "Criswell" Hart <criswell@geekcomix.com> AIM, Yahoo!: <criswell4069>
Homepage: < http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/ >
PGP Info: < http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/contact/ >
Tux4Kids: < http://www.tux4kids.org/ >