From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 9 23:46:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1797737B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:46:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 840A35730D; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:46:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:46:19 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research plat Message-ID: <20001110014618.A84887@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <200011092026.eA9KQ9a92289@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011092026.eA9KQ9a92289@aslan.scsiguy.com>; from gibbs@scsiguy.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:26:09PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Moved to -advocacy] On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:26:09PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs scribbled: | specific examples of how FreeBSD is used as either a teaching | aid or a research platform by educational institutions. If possible, http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/os uses FreeBSD to teach OS Arch. I would estimate about 10-15% of *.edu.tw workstations is running FreeBSD, with a major following in the dorms. (sometimes much larger following than Linux.) As a teaching assistant, I use FreeBSD source to supplement my classes at Univ of Texas at Austin, ece.utexas.edu (Professor uses C++, Codewarrior/x86, and I will withhold opinion on that.) I also use FreeBSD on my own research project about high traffic router redundancy/load balancing controlled via neural networks. At AMD, I used FreeBSD/Alpha/x86 to do VHDL simulations and chip verifications for a while. I think USC has a course on OS Architecture using FreeBSD, Kris Kennaway has a url, which I forget. physics.purdue.edu runs FreeBSD in the computer labs, according to Will Andrews. IIRC, Drew Gallatin and duke.edu uses FreeBSD/Alpha+myrinet. China's government was considering to make FreeBSD its default *.gov.cn OS, but decided on Linux eventually. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message