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NCSU/Red Hat "Open Source University"
Aithlin writes "According to this story at Business Wire, Red Hat and North Carolina State University are partnering to open an "Open Source-based university". This means that students at NCSU's engineering school will standardize on RH." Basically, it means that the School of Engineering will standardize on "Open Source" technologies.
Most mechanical/aerospace and electrical/computer design firms are heavily rooted in UNIX. I work for a semiconductor design and technology firm and all our EDA (electronic design automation) tools not only run on UNIX, but 75% of them either don't have Windows ports or are "crippled" on Windows (because of issues with multiuser, remote display, etc...).
About half of those tools now have full, native ports on Linux. Specifically you ask? Try Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, ModelTech, etc... Although Sun just came out with a powerful new UltraSPARC III chip (powerful from an FPU, and therefore engineering, standpoint against x86), Linux gives you much more "bang for the buck" on single/dual processor x86 hardware than SPARC.
Furthermore, many of the preceding companies have been touting the price vs. performance ratio of Linux clusters versus traditional shared memory Sun systems (in favor of Linux, of course ;-) and have modified their Linux ports just for such implementations.
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err. as the guy who started sunsite^Wmetalab^Wibiblio, I should pipe up. the project which preceded sunsite was an internet bulletin board server called laUNChpad. it was our goal, as it is now, to help make information sharing possible world-wide. Sun was nice enough to help foster that project for a number of years as was Cisco, Real, and others. Red Hat was a sponsor to some extent from early in that company's life. And we will be announcing some other sponsors soon.
UNC has one of the best CS departments in the country, but it is a very research focused department. NCSU, where i went to school in the late 60s, has a different focus for their department of CS which is also a fine program. But the information sharing work is not in CS but at UNC in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science where I hold joint appointments.
The UNC computer support folks, called ATN, run AIX, Solaris, Linux and other OSs as they feel is appropriate.
ibiblio is most certainly a part of UNC
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It doesn't suprise me at all that the first post in this topic is a redhat-bashing post. Yet, Redhat is again taking some really positive steps to promote linux, and help bring it to the next level.
Sure, they slap the Redhat name on it, but you know it's gonna be some highly customized installation set up by the school that has little if anything to do with the regular retail install.
But, they are again putting a lot of effort, dedicating people to promote linux in areas where it needs it most, and again, they seem to get nothing but contempt in return.
"why not debian" "why not slackware" I'm sure we'll see dozens of times in this thread. The facts are that noone connected with those distributions are doing anything along these lines to promote Linux.
You may not like Redhat as a company. You may not like Redhat linux as a distribution. But you should recognize, and give them credit for at least some of the efforts they are making, because we all benefit in the long run.
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