On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:59, Dan Kegel wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:48, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > > I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities" > > > at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ > > > > Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland > > - has several computer labs (generally accessible to students) with > > various Linux distributions (mainly RH and Debian). > > - offers Laptops pre-installed with Linux/Windows dual boot > > preinstalled (dunno what Linux, though; and the main point here is that > > they offer Laptop hardware at relatively good prices). > > Found it: > http://www.id.ethz.ch/Dienste/Laptopverleih/Angebot.html > They offer Linux on request, but no support. > (Amusingly, the English page says they have no laptops for sale.) > That ought to be helpful, thanks! The ETHZ webpages are a hopeless maze - I'm astonished you found *anything* at all... http://www.neptun.ethz.ch/Swan.html This is the student laptop thing I thought of. > Official Linux support looks thin. > e.g. http://n.ethz.ch/index_neu.html says > they're cutting off wireless LAN access to the > internet unless you use their VLAN, and they only support > Windows and MacOSX. Didn't know that yet... http://www.id.ethz.ch/Dienste/VPN/ has installation instructions for Linux Gnerally, I found the availability of Linux at ETH was not difficult, and the support staff is generally bad anyway, so there's no difference between a windows support that's not existant because the support staff is not able and a Linux support that's not existant because there's no official person saying 'we support Linux'. For all platforms, you get good support at ETHZ if you know who you can ask - and it's the official support contact only in rare cases... Ok, I'll shut up now... Important for me is just: if I want to use Linux at ETHZ, it's no problem doing so. If I want to use Windows, or MacOS, or Solaris, likewise. </rant> -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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