On 4/24/07, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My sense is that it's typical for universities to do the standard lock-in
thing for desktop environments, i.e., most people use Windows so we do
too. However, most universities also run more serious systems for servers,
enterprise computing, and research, and these are often unix-ish of some
sort. My two office computers and my laptop, all university owned, are all
Debian pure, but with tenure, hey, what are they going to do to me? :)
Yes, you are right. Most "computing" related/oriented depts have a few
server grade machines which are *NIX's. The day-to-day mail/internet
access machines (aka "lab machines" run WIndows). Even in our
Statistics dept, the lab has some 16 odd Dells running XP, two
self-built running RHEL4 and one Apple with MAC OSX 10.4. But of
course, there are 4 other RHEL4 running servers. Most faculty have one
XP and one RHEL4 in his/her office. To be thankful to our system adm,
after I (grad student) got my office, on request, I got a RHEL4 too.
And frankly, after that I have hardly seen anyone use the three non-XP
machines in lab for login purposes, though a whole lot of them do use
the servers for computing jobs, remotely.
There are two Windows 2003 servers too. The funny thing is they have
blocked using IE in the servers. "You can use IE locally from XP, why
do you need server's IE?" makes sense. But fire up a windows explorer
and you are on the net again. They can't stop that :)
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Regards
PK
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