Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Want to present at LINUXWORLD NY/ 2002?]

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

>Linux/Unix is quite ingraned at the University level, many people expect
>to see it, etc.  Not many people know about the use, benifits and cost
>savings of it in the K-12 level.  I would even venture to say that most of
>the people involved in SEUl/edu are concerned about the K12 level, and
>have a feeling that the university level is handling itself.

I would have to disagree on this.  There are some universities where the
only *nix machines are operated almost entirely out of the Computer Science
Department, which means most people that want to learn about *nix don't
have the choice.  At the University of West Florida, for example, until the
last few years or so, the web, mail, and ftp servers were all run on linux
boxes--which have since been switched to NT / 2000.  Only two organizations
on campus even run *nix servers and workstations anymore--The Computer
Science department, which has a lab of unix workstations and a departmental
server run under solaris 8, and the Web Spinners group which runs a
Mandrake Linux server.

Just my .02,

Michael