Re: [seul-edu] Linux in Universities

[Ivan Teliatnikov <ivan@es.usyd.edu.au>]

On 27 Aug 2002, Samuel Hart wrote:

School of Geosciences University of Sydney.

All mission critical servers.

ftp, mail, www, ssh, oracle database - all running on linux.



> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 01:12, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>: 
> >  
> > > Eventually I hope to make this a useful resource for anyone 
> > > trying to convince their local university that Linux should be  
> > > (a) supported by their IT staff,  
> >  
> > Few Universities do this, which honestly, I think is fine so long as they do 
> > not actively oppose Linux or require proprietary software to access certain 
> > resources.  Fortunately most universities have LUGs to help people along. 
> 
> Actually, we at the University of Arizona Physics Dept. support it. In
> fact, we prefer it... and from what I hear, many other depts in our
> University do as well.
> 
> > > (b) used for infrastructure, 
> >  
> > I've worked for two university IT departments -- both of which used Linux 
> > extensively.  I think you'll find that this is more of the standard than the 
> > exception. 
> 
> I agree. In the Physics Dept. here we have most of our infrastructure
> systems running Linux. There is one ailing NT box, an ailing True64, and
> another ailing Solaris... but all are on the chopping block to be
> replaced by Linux when we get time enough to devote to them ;-)
> 
> > > (c) used as part of the undergraduate cirriculum,  
> >  
> > Again, *nix has typically dominated computer science departments, well, 
> > forever.  Linux has become a much cheaper replacement to proprietary systems 
> > and as such is again, becoming the standard. 
> 
> While I can't say much for our comp.sci dept, we in Physics use it for
> all of our programming courses. Granted, the users typically SSH into
> these Linux machines from a Win2k desktop... but they are doing all of
> their work on the Linux boxen.
> 
> 

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