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Here at Queensland University of Technology (BNE - AUS), they use Linux (mainly Redhat 6.0) a hell of a lot in the IT Labs. For all the network admin, management, comparative network systems, etc.. subjects, RH6.0 is used. They sell it in the Computer Shop and there are numerous books (mainly rubbish Unleashed ones) in the bookstore.

For the Operating Systems subject, it is split between Unix (SysVR4 - redhat) and NT4. All this in 13 weeks (ouch, it used to just be the unix in all that time!). In that we cover csh, shell scripting in sh/bash, i/o, pipes, memory management, etc...
For projects / assignments, we have to write a C parser for unix, and for NT, a basic device driver. we haven't been given the specs for the VxD as of yet however.

In the previous subject - Computer Architecture - we had to write a mouse driver (for DOS of course) using Assembler, now wasn't that one fun boys and girls!


My $0.02
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jflynn wrote
It might be worth looking into the certification standard they mentioned and see what's missing, if anything.

Heck, if you want to eyeball a public key certification system, take a look at OSCAR (Open Secure Certificate ARchitecture). While we all know that Silicon Valley is the centre of the IPO universe ;-), some interesting work gets done outside California. Anyone knows whether it is legal to download and test this out within the US juristiction?

LL

See project oscar at http://oscar.dstc.qut.edu.au/

- James