[100981] in RedHat Linux List
RE: colleges and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sma202@omicron.ACF.NYU.EDU)
Tue Nov 24 01:40:34 1998
From: sma202@omicron.ACF.NYU.EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 01:39:08 -0500 (EST)
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Most colleges like mine also tend to focus on forms of unix like minix
and linux because they arent proprietary and the professors can show how
the operating system ticks...
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Joel Oliveira wrote:
> Here in our CS department we are almost solely immersed in the Unix world.
> Which is not necessarily such a good thing. There really should be a happy
> balance between the two "worlds" I guess. I prefer the Unix OS's, cuz
> they're better :), so I get along great with the Sparcs and Ultras we have
> here. The programming aspect of the curriculum is almost all in Unix also.
> Myself, I've taken an IPC course ( unix internals ) and a software
> engineering course here, along with all the other courses taught.
>
> Basically I've been weened with gcc, g++, gdb, and vi .. which I like. Now
> because of that I'm a linux nut now .. o well :). So I would guess that in
> your search for a school, make sure you get pretty detailed. Shit, I've
> seen places still running on 486's. Sad Sad Sad.
>
> "that's just my .02$"
>
>
> joel
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: michael@mail.redhat.com [mailto:michael@mail.redhat.com]On Behalf
> > Of Michael Jinks
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 1:00 AM
> > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: colleges and linux
> >
> >
> > "Michael S. Dunsavage" wrote:
> > >
> > > Does any one know of any college that has any classes dedicatd to *nix
> > > OS's? As much as I currently need MS it is clear that I will need *nix
> > > education as well.
> >
> > Any college with a decent computer science department will be running
> > several machines with some sort of UNIX, and most of them have at least
> > some form of Linux presence. If they don't teach the skills to run
> > those machines, then they're pretty low-grade CS departments. :)
> >
> > What part of the world are you in?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Jinks
> > mailto:michael@twopoint.com http://www.twopoint.com
> > Systems Administrator, Two Point Conversions, Inc.
> >
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