Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Matt Minuti
I believe UNH's CS department was quite linux-centric. The first programming course for engineers was C++ using GCC and VI, and required ssh'ing into a server to submit work. That's about all I can speak to, though. That said, I think they've switched over to Java for a lot of the beginning stuff

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Matt Minuti writes: I believe UNH's CS department was quite linux-centric. The first programming course for engineers was C++ using GCC and VI, and required ssh'ing into a server to submit work. That's about all I can speak to, though. That said, I think they've switched over to Java for

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Susan Cragin
UNH also used to have a good intro class for emacs and org. I don't know if they still have it, but some of the sessions are available on youtube. I'm sorry I've forgotten the name of the professor. I did a word search in the course catalogue for linux and found only this. CS 721 - Operating

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Gina L Desmarais
UNH CS is still linux-based. They run linux servers and desktop systems. There is a new windows-based IT program but the CS major is still linux-based. On 01/10/2013 09:24 AM, Susan Cragin wrote: UNH also used to have a good intro class for emacs and org. I don't know if they still have it,

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Chip Marshall
On 10-Jan-2013, Gina L Desmarais g...@cs.unh.edu sent: UNH CS is still linux-based. They run linux servers and desktop systems. There is a new windows-based IT program but the CS major is still linux-based. Back when I took classes there, it was all UNIX based. Have they switched over to

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
I would think that Linux is probably a relatively standard model for an OS course. Could you see Design and implementation of an operating system kernel, using Microsoft Windows as an example. I don't see an operating systems course at either Northeastern or BU. I didn't see Linux in any of the

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

2013-01-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Mac macdroi...@gmail.com writes: On 01/09/2013 04:35 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I'd be glad to talk about my weekend project building an advanced whole-home audio system on the cheap using Linux computers with PulseAudio,