I am enrolled in the honors intro to computer science class (why its at 9:30, neither the professor or I can figure out), and everyone might be pleased to know... we will be using Linux exclusively as our operating system of choice. The lab that the class is in (the WANT Lab) is full of dual boot machines, running win2kpro and RedHat Linux (9.0 for all I could tell).
We will start off using the GNU C++ compiler, then move on to a commercial compiler. The name for the compiler wasnt given, but the price was... upwards of $1,000 per computer. I am not sure, but I think we will be accessing these via slogin on one of the sun workstations. Sounded like news you guys might like. On a side note, I was driving through baton rouge, listening to my favorite radio station (91.1 klsu) sunday evening. It was their weekly news show, and they were talking about the blaster worm. They mentioned that it sucked because the only alternative was the mac, and that was too expensive. So I called up during the break, and told the dj about linux (at which point he was like "yea, i've heard of that before). They put me on the show and I gave a short 30 second spiel about Linux (but forgot to mention brlug :( I was put on the spot). So I'm sure that got out to a bunch of listeners. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030818/1fa78f73/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 18 16:36:02 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Carter) Date: Mon Aug 18 15:36:35 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only Hippies listen to KLSU, though. :-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat Branyon Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [brlug-general] Linux In Louisiana (in the past few days) I am enrolled in the honors intro to computer science class (why its at 9:30, neither the professor or I can figure out), and everyone might be pleased to know... we will be using Linux exclusively as our operating system of choice. The lab that the class is in (the WANT Lab) is full of dual boot machines, running win2kpro and RedHat Linux (9.0 for all I could tell). We will start off using the GNU C++ compiler, then move on to a commercial compiler. The name for the compiler wasnt given, but the price was... upwards of $1,000 per computer. I am not sure, but I think we will be accessing these via slogin on one of the sun workstations. Sounded like news you guys might like. On a side note, I was driving through baton rouge, listening to my favorite radio station (91.1 klsu) sunday evening. It was their weekly news show, and they were talking about the blaster worm. They mentioned that it sucked because the only alternative was the mac, and that was too expensive. So I called up during the break, and told the dj about linux (at which point he was like "yea, i've heard of that before). They put me on the show and I gave a short 30 second spiel about Linux (but forgot to mention brlug :( I was put on the spot). So I'm sure that got out to a bunch of listeners.
