--- digital_brahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Newbiez,
>
> How's Life?? I wanted to start a new thread of
> discussion, therefore
> this post.
>
> I am doing a technical course from Mumbai
> University. Being a Linux
> Freak, I was shocked to see almost every computer on
> campus with only
> Windows 98 or Windows NT (at the server). Why do you
> think that this
> is so? Linux if free and with flavors like
> Linspire, Red Hat and
> Mandrake - it's getting easier to install and use.
>
> Debian and BSD, according to me, still provide some
> of the best free
> development tool which is essential to a developer
> like myself.
>
> Is this scene a common one all across India?
>
> I'd like to know your thoughts.
>
> Thanks.
>
> The Digital Brahman
>
Hi,
It's not just in India, it's in the state of Nevada,
too. The community college has classes in A+
hardware/software, Unix and Linux, but we have to have
removable drives in those computer classes, plus the
rows of PCs have to be unlocked because of the Sentry
system they use to allow any OS to be installed. I
know they use Linux for the campus phone messaging.
They may be using Netware somewhere, too.
But at the 4-year college they don't have the classes
described like this. I know one of my teachers was a
System Admin in their computer center, and said you
better learn your BASH and VI if you want to be one.
I remember one Linux student brought his own laptop
and plugged it in so he could use Linux instead of
Windows when he could. He said he was going to
transfer to a school with more Linux classes. I think
our higher learning tuition dollars may convince the
schools in the end. Or the businesses clamber for
more of us to be trained.
Good luck,
Joan
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