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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?'
are you such a freaking nerd that you care if your daughter has access to linux at college? there are more important things to worry about, like what she's going to major in, her grades, and how much partying she will be doing with the rest of the freshman.
give me a f*cking break.
This is sort of like asking if the University is friendly to Ham Radio operators. The honest answer is 'no' and that the hobbyists will have to continue to cobble together their own solutions.
"Without these, the girl will be forced to a non-linux platform to succeed."
OH MY GOD!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Related to schools, if your daughter is looking to apply to med school in the US after undergrad make sure you have a Windows or Mac kicking around somewhere because AMCAS locks Linux computers out of their online application.
mmmm...forbidden donut
That's probably exactly what the OP is thinking.
He sounds like a GNU/Fundementalist who is just looking for an excuse to lock up his daughter until he can find a suitable Linux developer to marry her off to.
Linux can easily cost hundreds or thousands of dollars in support costs to train users who grew up on Macs or Windows PCs on how to use it properly. So Linux may actually end up being the most expensive option.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
I went on a tour lead by a fraternity brother... Science library: " This is a really cool place, one of the first thing you notice is that you can check out video games, that's all I've ever been here for" Followed a few minutes later by a tour of the science complex buildings - " I don't know what they do here, but it is some impressive stuff" Spare you much more of the stuff. Kid was a Junior, and no surprise - a Business major at a Division 1 University (place where football players slug people)... Note to University: If you want to sell your University, hire some impressive/capable students (you might have to pay for that) and not some dimwits. Note to Parents: skip the University tour, unless all you're worried about is rooting for a football team - call a couple faculty and arrange some meetings, many would be happy to chat with you for a few minutes.
These are not innate freedoms. I haven't given up anything because I didn't have it to start with. You have no right to give a copy of a digital work to a friend.
Yes, in fact, I can. The fact that you can't says more about how we respond to problems (me by solving them and you by whining about it) than Microsoft.
Microsoft was not convicted of a felony. Microsoft was involved in a civil trial. As a corporation, I do not expect nor desire remorse or rehabilitation from them: those are sentencing attributes that apply only to human beings.
And that's your decision, certainly. You can also kick people out of your store because the voices in your head tell you to do so. That doesn't make it a good reason.
Rather, your arguments about Microsoft going back and repeating their actions have not been proven; so at this point, you're the person who's seen someone commit a crime and then sees a crime in everything they do afterward, regardless of whether or not it was criminal or even malicious.
"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Peak Performance