Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:00:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804111557.LAA12964@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > University of Guelph here in Soutern Ontario, this means NT. The side > effect of this is, due purely to economic and time issues, CS departments > are picking *ONE* Unix environment. PCs are perfect. Dual boot them with > NT and Linux, and you've got the best of both worlds. 2 simple systems > for you admins to maintain, and you can market your program as providing > students qualified in Windows and UNIX. So you're not producing software engineers, you're producing programmers. I haven't finished my degree, but the CS classes I was taking concentrated as much on why as they did on how. Platform is immaterial in this environment, with the exception that whatever platform you use has to be flexible and well documented. NT doesn't meet either requirement. Linux would do fine, but you can't trust to find stable backwards compatible releases. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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