Any department at LSU can get a MSDNAA license for $700/year which includes XP for the labs, all server editions, basically everything but office (which is free b/c of a university agreement with MSFT). For that $700 you can also provide the students of any class (not majors) in your dept with access to whatever you want from MSDN for free. And they don't have to stop using the software once the class is over.
MS is heavily entrenched in academia in order to breed the next generation of MS coders and admins. Say what you want about MS, but they provide the software to academia basically for nothing. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will Hill Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds... 11/21/04 On Monday 14 February 2005 10:26 am, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > keep your flamethrower in the closet There's no need for invective when you have something to share. The primary problem, device drivers, is one that's going away and adoption, especially at LSU, is up. > Szulik: For the average person that > needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into > the terminal window, we think that the user's experience with any > brand of Linux will be sub-par. He should run Fedora more often. Great plugin camera support has been working since core one. I can contrast that and other excellent USB performance under debian with buggy and useless performance under Windoze 2000, where taking cameras off could cause a system freeze and Palm users got pushed around by ineffective corporate "security" measures. Syncing my visor with KDE and getting pictures with digikam are point and click operations that work out of the box with most modern Linux distros. >[Awful educational FUD about W2K costing a University less than a year of RH support.] What can you do with W2K server by itself that justifies the increased workload due to viruses and all that? It's my impression that cost of additional software and runaround are an order of magnitude more expensive than the initial purchase. LSU's terminals in the Rec Center and Union have gone over to some kind of terminal running Firefox on a locked down KDE desktop. I've never seen any of them have a problem. Several computer labs have what looks like Fedora running, which makes it easy to pull up a Konq session and move around files by sftp. Students and staff are getting tired of Microsoft's problems. Last weekend, I helped a fellow grad student put Fedora on a machine that had a copy of Win98 blow up. His room mate's fancy laptop had a copy of XP Pro that was all hosed and he was pissed. My rad. therapy professor does all of his presentations from powerpoint from a laptop that's as buggy as all get up. It takes for freaking ever to get up the presentations because power management is not working for him, and his wifi is looking for the mother ship. Then the presentation freezes at random and occasionally the whole thing crashes. You can say it works, but my 233 MHz PII laptop does all of those things faster, without having to boot and without network weirdness. Once these people go free, they won't be going back. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
