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Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the greater-good dept.

kNIGits writes "News.com.au is reporting that the University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot installations in favour of booting Linux only. Among other reasons, staff enjoy the ease with which they can 'lock down' first year students, stopping them messing with the systems prior to learning anything about them."

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  1. the original quote by SHEENmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports
    on it, you know they are just evil lies."
    (By Linus Torvalds, Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)

    --
    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
  2. duel boot by Joakim+A · · Score: 5, Funny

    >The Uni of New South Wales Computer Science and
    >Engineering department has been running
    >unix/linux for years, no duel boot.

    Well, duel boot, that is something I would like to run. Just install windows and a few linux/BSD dists, turn on the machine and leave it over night. Then we finally could settle this thing.

    /J

    Ps My bet is on that spiky fish eventhough that little red bastard with the fork might be nasty. I mean, how hard can it be to beat a geek from redmond or a penguin? Hmm, could be a whole army of penguins of course, well that might get tricky.

    1. Re:duel boot by NoOneInParticular · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'm not sure about the geek from redmond, but before you belittle penguins, consider these words from Linus Torvalds:

      "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux. Which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."
  3. Re:Hehehehe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Like what, dumb kids cutting the rj45 cable? You are so clever!

  4. Re:Early Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But you do realize, the whole point is that we don't want real friends. They are far too clumsy and random, much like a blaster.