Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Asarnow
That's interesting. My knowledge is based mostly on my parents' experience, about ten years back, and welcome messages from telneting into the library, so it's somewhate outdated. My personal experience is more in LBL than UC Berkeley, but I've only seen one X11 desktop there. Daniel --- zero

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread zeroion
> Definately. Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD > direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not Speaking as a current Berkeley CS student, I feel that UC Berkeley leans in the direction of Solaris. I have yet to see a BSD workstation in any of the main computer labs, which is ironic

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Asarnow
Definately. Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not true of every UC. I hear that Davis uses a lot of Solaris and Linux machines). I know from friends that the City College in San Francisco also uses *nix...my impression from talking to vario

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Chris Metcalf
I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you a good solid foundation in computer science and then to specialize later on. If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not pick a university whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix platforms? At my alma mater (the University of

Re: Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned: > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why > I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or ga

Wierd Question

2004-06-23 Thread Cecil
I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or game programming. Or a specific lan