Re: Linux in Universities

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> > > > 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
> 
> http://www.neptun.ethz.ch/Swan.html
> 
> This is the student laptop thing I thought of.

Ah, thanks.
 
> > 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

Cool... I don't suppose you could pester them to put a link to
that page from  http://n.ethz.ch/index_neu.html, so it doesn't look
like they only support Mac and Windows?

Thanks for all the info!
- Dan