Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 04:22:50 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: nadav@cs.technion.ac.il (Nadav Eiron) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mark@vmunix.com, kris@airnet.net, dshanes@personalogic.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804120922.EAA02708@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980412113059.25087A-100000@csd> from Nadav Eiron at "Apr 12, 98 11:41:38 am"
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> > > On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > These are great points - you want to write up a paper on "getting > > FreeBSD into academic environments" and I'll print it in the > > newsletter? Seriously, the points you've made are too useful to see > > just vanish into the mailing list archives.. > > > > Jordan > > > > Our CS department here at the Technion, for several reasons, is going to > distribute CDs to students starting the next academic year. We currently > have roughly 1200 undergrads in the department, and the plan calls for > this figure to double in the next two years. The CD is intended for the > students to use at home instead of swamping the department's overloaded > machines. However, Linux is very strong here, and I could not persuade > the faculty to use FreeBSD for the purpose. Their main points were the > better availability of user-level docs, and the better support students > will get from other students that already know Linux. However, all is not > lost (I don't think they made any practical steps towards creating the > CD). In the process, I also converted two labs to FreeBSD (after Sun > suddenly wanted another $10000 for Solaris source licenses, it wasn't very > hard). Yet, even these labs are under constant pressure to use NT... > > Any docs on why FreeBSD would be good for Academia will make a difference > in such situations. What is missing, IMHO, is a list of institutions using > FreeBSD, both for teaching and research as well as a list of major > research operations that are carried out using [Free|Open|Net]BSD. Having > links on www.freebsd.org to web pages for courses being taught on FreeBSD > would be just great. It seems that for the purpose of handing out CDs to > students, nobody is interested at how stable the OS is for running servers > :-( > *BSD: (Net, Free)BSD are the OSes being used by NCI (the Oracle subsidiary) for their commercial/business NC platform. The OSes are working very well. Frankly, there was no other reasonable choice, due to quality, licensing and cost. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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