Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread David Teague
Hi Simon, Charles, and all: I wish you had included the original poster's address so I could CC: him. We have used Debian since the 0.93 days for our servers in the department of computer science. We have a fairly large server (cs.wcu.edu) for mail, web service, and file service to both Lo

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Norris Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:39 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations Here at Monash University in Australia, we use both Solaris and Linux

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Robert Norris
Here at Monash University in Australia, we use both Solaris and Linux. Solaris is used for most mission critical services, but most of the time we use it because we need the grunty Sun hardware that it comes with it. Linux is being used more and more within the IT department. We've found it especi

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread C. Falconer
Whats the email address for the original poster? I *assume* he wants to be CCed. Gidday I am the network admin at Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch New Zealand. We currently run two NT servers for main file and print sharing and email based on Exchange. In addition the firewall

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
ssage- From: Charles Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:06 AM To: debian-user Subject: Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations We use debian all over this campus (routers, firewalls, mail servers, web servers, samba servers, etc) and I know that they have

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-06 Thread Charles Lewis
We use debian all over this campus (routers, firewalls, mail servers, web servers, samba servers, etc) and I know that they have at least one debian box in the CS department. Charles Lewis, Director of Adminstrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX 76059 (817) 556-4720 - phon

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-04 Thread Tom Marshall
My only concern is that these are x86 machines, not Sparcs. My experience is that Linux does not run as well as Solaris on the Sparc platform. Specifically, RedHat 6.1 on a SUN4U box doesn't seem to play very nice with the SCSI controller and the entire machine pauses for noticeable periods under