Re: [seul-edu] Linux in Universities

[Jeff Nelson <jtnelson@mail.el-camino.net>]

Three months ago, I set up a Linux web/ftp server for the General
Requirements Unit English department at United Arab Emirates University.
It's at: http://www.ugruenglish.uaeu.ac.ae

The university's official policy is that *all* machines on campus run
Windows 2000. (Although that doesn't stop them from having old 486's and
Pentium I boxes running Win9x on two-thirds of the teachers' desks!! Also,
the university Web server runs Solaris.)  Upper management has no idea we're
running Linux.  The beauty of it was, we didn't have to do any purchasing to
set it up--just recycle an extra PC.

The only other Linux boxes at the university are my and another colleague's
desktops that we have set up to dual-boot.

Jeff Nelson

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 15:54, Karl wrote:
> Hi Dan!
>
> Please check out our listings and resources at these two URLs (and also,
> please try to submit any updates or additions to these two lists):
> http://seul.org/~jennifer/osschools/SchoolCount.html
> http://casestudy.seul.org/
>
>
> Keep us posted on your progress, and feel free to send me a direct line if
> you need to bounce ideas around, as I have a lot of input regarding Free
> Software and GNU/Linux in four-year universities.
>
>
> Good luck,
>   -Karl
>
> SEUL/edu Liason
> e: karl@seul.org
> e: jackal@raptor.slc.edu
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:51:16 -0700
> > From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
> > Reply-To: seul-edu@seul.org
> > To: "seul-edu@seul.org" <seul-edu@seul.org>
> > Subject: [seul-edu] Linux in Universities
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm researching the use of Linux in four-year universities -- which
> > these
> > days means "I just spent an hour of quality time with google".
> > The results so far are at
> > http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/
> > (The /edu/ url refers to the domain names I searched with google :-)
> >
> > 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,
> > (b) used for infrastructure,
> > (c) used as part of the undergraduate cirriculum,
> > (d) a part of their extension courses
> >
> > Suggestions and updates welcome.
> > Thanks!
> > - Dan