Re: [seul-edu] School count

["George D. Holmes" <gholmes@comp.uark.edu>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, jeff williams wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> > How many schools out there actually use linux? at least a linux server?

At the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR), the Dept of Computer
Science and Computer Engineering has been using Linux since the 97-98
academic year in general access labs (dual boot pc's w/ Windows 9x/NT
and Red Hat 7.1).

Unfortunately, only a few profs/instructors are using the Linux OS for
their programming assignments at present, but things are changing.

Interestingly, it's the service course we teach for non-majors (Computing
Skills) where Linux is given a formal intro. I always make sure students
experience at least some Linux during the term ... and even under Windows,
we always use some Open Source tools (Star/OpenOffice, the GIMP, et al.).
This course has an enrollment of 240+ each term, hopefully some are
"converted" as a result of their exposure.


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