Linux/Unix in the classroom

Jefferson Kirkland numberwhun at attbi.com
Sat Jan 18 11:49:30 EST 2003


At 11:38 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:16:13 -0500
>Jefferson Kirkland <numberwhun at attbi.com> wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to add that I am attending Daniel Webster College here
> > in Nashua, NH, and they use Linux for any of their *nix classes.  I
> > took the Unix Administration class and the computers had Red Hat
> > installed on the machines.  DWC has hot swappable hard drives for the
> > machines with Windows on one, Linux on another, etc.  I haven't seen a
> > dual boot machine anywhere yet though.
> > Just a side note, their server is also Red Hat linux based.
>That's good to know. One of my friends teaches there and mentioned that
>they used Cygwin, but that was a couple of years ago.
>
>There is a difference between teaching a Unix admin course and the Unix
>course offered at Northeastern. I don't know what they use for the admin
>class at Northeastern. I know they have Sun workstations at the Dedham
>campus.
>
>--
>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
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>

I was just using the course as an example, but the nice thing is, the 
instructor was well rounded enough to give scenarios covering a few of the 
differenr *nixes.  Overall, it is just good to see that people are 
implementing Linux in so many different ways.
Where I work, Linux is a bad word and installing it on a machine at work is 
grounds for dismissal.  Being a Sun shop and having based alot of stuff on 
Solaris, the word 'Free' was not something certain people wanted to 
hear.  That's ok, I run Linux on enough machines here at home to make up 
for it.  :)

Jeff






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