[wellylug] NSW University computing guidelines... may be of interest

Wood Brent pcreso at pcreso.com
Mon Mar 29 10:14:55 NZST 2004


I was working with a PhD student from NSW university last week, who commented
that Linux is the standard OS installed there. 

I looked up the web site & found:

The page http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/cc/recommendations/
contains the following recommendation, which appears to have been adopted:
__________________________________________________________________________
010921b: Operating system for teaching labs
    All standard teaching labs use the GNU/Linux operating system.
__________________________________________________________________________

This is policy for the School of Computer Sciences & Engineering, which has
about 4000 undergrad students.

Their facilities include:

284 mostly Intel-based computers in 15 generic teaching laboratories running  
  Solaris or Linux,
20 computers in an NT-based teaching lab,
50 Solaris/Linux computers reserved for thesis students,
50 computers in specialist teaching laboratories (see below),
30 locally developed research machines of various kinds,
150 systems of various hardware and software configurations for academic staff 
  and research students,
50 computers for administration and systems support,
20 Unix-based servers (Intel, Digital, Sun and SGI hardware),
a 17-node Linux cluster for research,
a 18-node Linux cluster for teaching.

 
Does anyone know if any NZ universities make a similar use of Linux/UNIX, or
have as few Microsoft(TM) boxes?

Brent




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