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

Brenda O'Hagan brenda at wallace.net.nz
Mon Mar 29 10:20:05 NZST 2004


My sister is taking an internet techologies paper at Vic. (she's mathematics 
major)

she tells me the OS is  KDE (a bit of confusion there)
her assignments (html) must work in mozilla, and for scripting they learn php
sounds like someone has decided to go open source.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:14, Wood Brent wrote:
> 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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