[wellylug] NSW University computing guidelines... may be of i nterest

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Mon Mar 29 10:19:05 NZST 2004


Not Massey, thats for sure. Have just completed a rollout of approx 900 HPs,
all running Win2K and about 50 ~75 G5 Macs

-----Original Message-----
From: Wood Brent [mailto:pcreso at pcreso.com]
Sent: Monday, 29 March 2004 10:15 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] NSW University computing guidelines... may be of
interest



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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