eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:What other schools in the Philippines do you know of that have started using GNU/Linux or some other Free Software/Open Source Software in their computer labs or other facilities? In 1993, we installed SLS Linux with kernel 0.9 pl-13 on an 8MB server, connected to a terminal server with 16 Wyse terminals, for use in the C programming class for CS students. We were running this server together with SCO Unix in the same lab. In 1994, the Math faculty network, was converted to Linux -- the mail server mathsci.math.admu.edu.ph was among the first boxes to run Linux. Since that time, we have junked SCO in favor of Slackware, then RedHat, then Fedora for our university servers (mail, web, proxy, etc), and for the Mathematics and Physics mail servers. To confirm try Netcraft on www.ateneo.edu, cng.ateneo.net, curry.ateneo.net, etc. For the school year 2006-2007, we converted our Windows-only general laboratories to dual-boot WinXP/Ubuntu. That experience was quite positive, and we will continue this arrangement in our general laboratories for school year 2007-2008.
For the ACM ICPC regional programming contests in 2005 and 2006 in Manila, we used a dual Xeon 2.8MHz PC running Fedora Core 5 for our PC^2 server.We removed most services, except the portmapper, which is needed by the PC^2 java progam. As a result, even if around 120 Windows PCs were connecting, the server just kept running without problems. The Windows PCs were running the team, admin, judge, and scoreboard PC^2 client programs. Compare this to the 2002-2004 regional contests held at the University of Asia and the Pacific. For two consecutive years in 2003 and 2004, during the last 30 minutes of the contest, when around 60-70 PCs we connecting to the Windows PC^2 server, the Windows server crashed, and had to be rebooted. The nice thing is, PC^2 program could recover nicely, despite the flaky performance of Windows. P~Manalastas
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