Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Linux User Statistics
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Steven Udell wrote:
TEX wrote:
How do you approach the school or what kind of relationship do you have to have with the school. What kind of school? What is the Linux box going to do? Will the kids have access? Just a few questions as I am giving linux boxes to two of my kids soon, and have always been wanting to get it in the schools. You can Email privatly, if you think the group does not want to hear.
Anxiously waiting your reply.
Hello TEX, -------- My relationship with my school is that I am a 7th quarter EET student. There are 8 quaters till graduation. I am almost done. I have a fairly good GPA(grade point average) and EET is electronic engineering tech. It is not a major univeristy, but; I live in the United States in the state of Oregon and the University of Oregon(which I am planning on going next) has a Beowolf cluster (lots of linux boxs linked together)
All students will have access to the Linux box, and it might grow. We do have a room full of Ethernet linked computers, and it will be linked to it. Exactly what it will do is in the future. For them to let me actually install Linux took me over 4 months of asking. Everyday (perfect attendance). =]
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I approached the school by way of a professor. Telling him that I run a Linux box at home. He said he was very intrested but the schools classes might never "teach linux" as a subject as schools have department heads that have to go along with the finance department, only consider things they can make a "shopping list for". As to say they know only the programs that will run on an MS/OS.. As at school here they teach Visual Basic/Visual C++/Java.. all bought knowing what they are and what they can do and what OS they will run under.
Linux is not in the direct line of sight for them, nor will it ever be soon.
Aside from the bummer news.. is that I did install Linux on a PII HP system today at school. Yes it is in a dual boot configuartion (along side windows) I did have to "donate" a harddrive to put it on. And even brought in a cheepy cd-rom drive. But actually they had one of thoes for me...Am, sorry I am telling this a bit forward, I did get the chance to install Linux at school on a DX/486-33Mhz HP computer 2 months ago. Well it ran good, and they liked it.. About a week before my 2 week vacation, they got a slew of PIIs to upgrade thier computer room(where they teach visual/MS programming) and one of the HPs they got had a bad monitor. Well knowing that, a professor at school, knowing I kinda compained (and grumbled) why couldn't they get me one of thoes to work on. (to show off Linux) well he did, he grabbed it(it was offered to him after he asked) and he let me move my donated harddrive and cd-rom drive to the PII. And then I installed SuSE-5.2 onto it. (just today as a matter of fact) Hell of alot better than the 486DX-33 ;)..
Now..basicly..its for show and tell..right now.. I do have a few friends at school that are into linux, or show some promise to use Linux. Even a few professors would like to get into it, after my demo of the Linux box today and when I had the 486DX-33 running it. They were all impressed.
I have said to my professor that I am playing around with a static ip that I got from <A HREF="http://www.ml.org"><A HREF="http://www.ml.org</A">http://www.ml.org and a domain name to use with a dynamic ip(my only connection to the net/WWW) Which I am learning to use apache/SQL/squid and I am planning on learning how to set up a ftp site(right now) and my professor's thoughts on that were very "intrested" as we could do such a thing here at school with the Linux box.
Well thats what I can say for now. (sorry for the length) Hope its intresting...I should spell check this thing =] its off the top of my head..and all new to me. Hope its not just spam to the SuSE email list..
Steven Udell hettar@teleport.com
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