Furthermore (with reference to a previous post) a large part of uni fees in europe (Germnay too) are paid by foreign (mostly oriental) students.
Clearly you have no knowledge of the german university system. Foreign students pay the exact same fees as german students - up until now only "administrative" fees of only a few hundred euros per semester (real tuition is only being phased in at the moment). Germany has thus for many years been probably the most affordable first world country for foreigners to study in. (Though their numbers have been kept comparably low as a result of german language requirements).
I thus really resent your uninformed statement - especially after a recent experience of a friend being in a masters program in England with 80% chinese that paid high tuition, and even though they very much depressed the level of academic discourse of course all got their degrees. Talk about "mostly oriental" cash cows.
One question regarding those applications...seeing that Photoshop/Premiere and the likes do run on OS X (and Windows), what would the real effort in porting them to Linux be?
I mean, OS X is some kind of **ix and apparently it is not overly difficult to port from Linux to OS X?
I understand there is not much of an incentive for Adobe/Macromedia to offer Linux versions at the moment, but that could change?
BTW: I am running Yellow Dog on a IMac DV, runs well and allows me to set screen resolutions that only the external monitor can handle - which is fine, since I cant afford to fix the broken (of course) internal one.
Package Management seems to be absent on YDL, and what really bugs me is the fact that there are no Linux/PPC versions of the Cisco VPN Client (used by university) and Flash.
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Clearly you have no knowledge of the german university system. Foreign students pay the exact same fees as german students - up until now only "administrative" fees of only a few hundred euros per semester (real tuition is only being phased in at the moment). Germany has thus for many years been probably the most affordable first world country for foreigners to study in. (Though their numbers have been kept comparably low as a result of german language requirements).
I thus really resent your uninformed statement - especially after a recent experience of a friend being in a masters program in England with 80% chinese that paid high tuition, and even though they very much depressed the level of academic discourse of course all got their degrees. Talk about "mostly oriental" cash cows.
Greetings, B.
References: German academic exchange service: Lack of Tuition Fees in Germany a Big Draw for Foreign Students (04/04/2002)
One question regarding those applications...seeing that Photoshop/Premiere and the likes do run on OS X (and Windows), what would the real effort in porting them to Linux be?
I mean, OS X is some kind of **ix and apparently it is not overly difficult to port from Linux to OS X?
I understand there is not much of an incentive for Adobe/Macromedia to offer Linux versions at the moment, but that could change?
BTW: I am running Yellow Dog on a IMac DV, runs well and allows me to set screen resolutions that only the external monitor can handle - which is fine, since I cant afford to fix the broken (of course) internal one.
Package Management seems to be absent on YDL, and what really bugs me is the fact that there are no Linux/PPC versions of the Cisco VPN Client (used by university) and Flash.