If he is doing Comp Sci then he will be using Linux. In later years he will probably find it easier to use Linux to do his work at home but probably not compulsory.
I switched to Linux in my second year doing Comp. Sci. while I was trying to produce a program that made Win95 crash more than half a dozen times in an hour. After installing Linux all I got were segmentation faults then I could continue to debug and remove the problems... I was in love :-) Compared to Linux MSWindows is crap to program in (IMHO) On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 01:21, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > These discussions about RedHat at Cant. Uni have me wondering. One of my > sons is starting a Computer Science course at Cant. Uni. This year. For the > past couple of years I have been espousing the virtues of Linux to him but > he has stuck with MS. > > Will he be "compelled" to "see the light" when he gets to uni? > > Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Glassenbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:17 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; stm23 > Subject: Re: Redhat > > > > stm23 wrote: > > hi, i've just purchased a new laptop & wanted to install the latest > version of > > the Redhat OS - so that i can replicate the canterbury university's cosc > lab > > computers. > We are not running the latest version -- Sticking to RH9 and leaving fedora > etc > for another year. > > > does any1 know where i can find a copy? are there any > > installfests coming up, like last year? > Others have offered the RH9 disks... we do have a few extras sitting on > network disks. I am not sure if we are putting out a COSC CD this year > but you could probably just plug into the IT public network ports > (NOT ours) and copy any other packages. > All our machines are setup via kickstart from PXE boot and have > quite a bit of local tailoring -- so the laptop might not work too > well off-campus if you installed it here :-) > > > also how much space does the OS takeup? > About 6 Gig - at some time we might sort out how to use that > 29Gig sitting spare :-) > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 37334192 5476656 29961064 16% / > /dev/hda1 101089 19816 76054 21% /boot > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Glassenbury Computer Science dept. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Canterbury > +64 3 3642987 ext 7762 New Zealand -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895
