Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-13 Thread Peter Sharp
Hi, Cambridge University in England now has dual-boot Linux on all of it's pulic computers (PWF - Personal Workstation Facility): http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pwf-linux/ I don't know if this page counts as support: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/docs/unix.html There is more support, but much of i

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:48, Dan Kegel wrote: > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland - has several computer labs (generally accessible to student

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
David P James wrote: > > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > > (1) I don't know how or if this fits, but for what it is worth the > department of economics here at Queen's runs on Debian servers, and has > some Debian-based workstations available for use by grad students and > faculty. However, the

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Ken Bloom wrote: > You should consider discussing universites whose departments use linux in > their labs. For example, I attend UC Davis and have taken computer classes > in three departments: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and > Mathematics. Each of these departments' labs run Unix vari

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Ken Bloom
ite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > My goal is to encourage univers

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Dan Kegel
DvB wrote: > > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > > Don't mean to be finicky, but I believe you have a typo in "Maryland," > in your list of survey results (I found that section quite interesting, > BTW). Thanks, I took this opportunity to finally learn how to use aspell, and fixed all the obviou

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Andre Berger
* David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-12 20:22 -0400: [...] > training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, as we use > floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but nevertheless, > who is going to do it? apt-get install mtoolsfm -Andre msg02087/pgp0.

RE: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Haines, Charles Allen
| - "Geek by nature, Linux by choice." -Original Message- From: David P James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux in Universities Dan

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:15:45PM -0400, David P James wrote: > Just training students to mount and unmount a floppy for instance, > as we use floppies for data storage quite a bit. Not a big task, but > nevertheless, who is going to do it? Assuming that the students ususally do work at home on

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread David P James
Dan Kegel was roused into action on 09/12/02 12:48 and wrote: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Unive

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Ignacio Solis
* Dan Kegel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I would appreciate your feedback on the content. If there's anything > missing there from your point of view, please let me know, > and I'll see if I can fix it. Hi Dan. Why are you not including LUGs? Many universities have LUGs. They are a clear sign

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread DvB
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" &

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
> Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. Well, since one of your selling arguments is the low-cost, you could make Debian stand out on this page because it's the only really free Linux operating system

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
the right place. > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > My goal is to encourage universities to support Linux and > free software in general, and to provide information on > the current state of Linux suppor