Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:14:11 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@netbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: [Slashdot] BSD usage in education Message-ID: <38C07173.F39DC1D@confusion.net> References: <20000303221539.A92735@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000303163527.R14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Yea, Stuy did have some theoretical potential. A few months back I was
talking with some people about getting FreeBSD into stuy. The word
there was, and still is, that though they'd love a copy of The Complete
FreeBSD or some free cds to give to kids to try, they're gonna stick
with debian. The guy who makes these decisions, Mike Zamansky, was at
one point a BSD user, but the lawsuits happened when this choice had to
be made, so it was Linux or nada. The reason they didn't switch back?
Basically, everyone got used to Linux, and there's no real reason to
switch (let's face it, the non-esthetic reasons to use FreeBSD don't
quite matter at a low demand installation, we're not needing lots of
speed). That and we've now got lots of kids who can admin linux, while
the FreeBSD contingent is basically me and a few others (Spike Gronim,
who used to lurk on these lists, but made the switch to debian to admin
for the school). Me, I try to help them with Linux some. I was pushing
to get something on BSD, and that day may come some day, but not yet.
Oh well. I've ranted enough. Back to being depressed (a test on our
senior cut day!!!!!!!*!*!*!*!)
My $.01 (2 cents being saved for intelligent comments)
Laurence
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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> The only place I thought I'd have some luck was at Stuyvesant,
> where they are pretty technical, however it seems to already be a
> Linux shop although they did have some interest in FreeBSD.
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
http://stuy.debate.net
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