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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:57:46AM +0100, Phil Vossler wrote: > At Exeter be assured that linux is made to work quite hard in a variety of > environments. In the Sciences where Unix was traditionally the OS of choice, > Linux is to be found in use on the desktop and behind the scenes providing > file sharing and number crunching facilities. Linux has enabled the > replacement of Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations with much cheaper > (though perhaps a little more unreliable) P.C. hardware. I would be If they are cheaper you can have more and/or spares. > surprised if a similar situation did not exist at Plymouth. Could it be something to do with Plymouth being a former Poly. > Indirectly Linux and Open Source software has spawned a range of tools that > enable our technical staff access to tools that would otherwise eat up a > significant budget. Tools such as Memetest-86, Parted and Partition Image > are freely available and allow a tight budget to stretch a little further. > (Partition Magic Pro 5 user is currently around £160 so I suspect that the > full technician version for unlimited use could approach £1k) > > I hesitate to say how many Linux systems are in use at Exeter . But a mass > rollout of Linux boxes for undergraduate use across the Uni would appear to > be quite unlikely. Why not, are they less able than secondary school children? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.