Use of Linux in Canadian universities

[Timothy Webster]

Hmm, 

What has happened to the students?, I did my stats assignments on a mainframe. When I did my thesis on unix, wow, I thought it was the greatest.
But seriously are students actually dumber? I don't think so. It takes all of us time to learn something new. And if windows or Mac OS is new it takes time to learn that. I really don't see how that makes linux harder.  If linux is new it will take students time to learn it, too. Anyway it is the University's job to teach.

Cheers
Tim



*nix in labs used by average students would be much like hell for the
employees of such locations. I work in UVic's busiest student
computing facility, and some of the users have enough trouble with
'doze and the Mac OS as it is.

Alyssa
(IRC=Touru)

On 9/7/06, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com
 wrote:

> I wonder what inspires these Universities to drop NIX and make the change to
> Windows? Is it for compatibility issues? The need to run platform-specific
> commercial software?
>
> There are obviously high end programs that will always require a Windows
> native installation, but I believe the open source alternatives to most
> programs are not being recognized. Maybe if the administrators of these
> Uni's and other facilities were aware of the power to compile needed
> features into their software, obtain bleeding-edge builds, and not have to
> worry about the licensing hell imposed by corporate monopolies such as
> Microsoft, they would re-think their strategies.
>
> On 9/7/06, Don Kelly  wrote:
> >
> > On 9/7/06, Timothy Webster  wrote:
> > > As a Canadian I sure hope Universities in Canada don't drop Unix and
> > switch
> > > to Windows.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, many already have.  My alma mater (St. Francis Xavier,
> > http://www.stfx.ca), converted most student facing systems to
> > Microsoft Windows NT starting as early as 1997.  The in-house designed
> > student information system was replaced soon after.  Today, I'd be
> > surprised if any of the infrastructure is built on anything other than
> > Microsoft Windows *.  There may be a few labs or groups who run a
> > *NIX, but I doubt they receive any support from the university.

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