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Does Your College Or University Support Linux?
yuna49 writes 'Lately I've been visiting colleges with my daughter, who is a senior in high school. Every school has proudly announced that they support both Windows and Macs, and most of these schools report having about a 50-50 split between the two. However we've been a Linux household for many years now, and my daughter routinely uses a laptop running Kubuntu 9.04. Sometimes I would ask the student tour guide if Linux was supported and was usually met with a blank stare. We're obviously not concerned about whether she can write papers using OpenOffice and Linux. Rather we've been wondering about using other computing services on campus like classroom applications, remote printing, VPNs, or Wi-Fi support (nearly all these campuses have ubiquitous Wi-Fi). Given the composition of Slashdot's readership, I thought I'd pose the question here. Does your school support Linux? Have you found it difficult or impossible to use Linux in concert with the school's computing services?'
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The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Here at Colorado School of Mines, most of the computers I've seen run Windows, but there is definitely a thriving Linux culture here. However, many teachers require assignments in .doc format, which is a real letdown.
You are now manually breathing.
If my kid wants to play on a pool table, he can find a bar to go play.
Not until the second semester of the junior year, when the student is expected to have turned 21.