The University of Michigan has pretty good Linux support. This goes for both the campus wide IT central services group and the two largest undergraduate colleges (Literature, Science and Arts; Engineering). Linux is used heavily at UM for servers and in many public computing labs (in addition to Mac and Windows). A fair number of the campus IT staff and consultants are skilled at Linux and very willing to help students. The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department has a major Linux operation and supports all of Fedora, Ubuntu, and Red Hat Enterprise. Linux laptops work fine on the UM campus WiFi net. Not all ports are open without a Cisco VPN client (which sometimes works on some versions of Linux), but the web based authentication works fine and it is easy to set up ssh tunnels to get around the port restrictions.
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The University of Michigan has pretty good Linux support. This goes for both the campus wide IT central services group and the two largest undergraduate colleges (Literature, Science and Arts; Engineering). Linux is used heavily at UM for servers and in many public computing labs (in addition to Mac and Windows). A fair number of the campus IT staff and consultants are skilled at Linux and very willing to help students. The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department has a major Linux operation and supports all of Fedora, Ubuntu, and Red Hat Enterprise. Linux laptops work fine on the UM campus WiFi net. Not all ports are open without a Cisco VPN client (which sometimes works on some versions of Linux), but the web based authentication works fine and it is easy to set up ssh tunnels to get around the port restrictions.