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Re: Linux in Universities



On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 21:42, David P James wrote:

> 
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder was roused into action on 09/13/02
> 02:47 and wrote:
> 
>  >
>  > Hmmm, in my experience, students helping each other works good
>  > enough. When people start at the Federal Institute, almost nobody
>  > knows anything about unix, let alone Solaris. People still manage to
>  > learn the basics of how to work on a Sun workstation soon enough -
>  > after all, there's an older student sitting at the machine next to
>  > yours, so you can pester him with questions. And there's also a
>  > student paid as a helpdesk person in most computer room, so you can
>  > always ask that one.
> 
> But we're not talking about comp sci students here, where we would
> expect there to be some among them with some previous unix/linux

I was not talking about comp sci students either. I was talking about
machine engineering students, electrical engineering students, math
students, agricultural engineering students, pharmaceutics students, ...

All of them use the solaris computer labs at times, and get to some
success.

cheers
-- vbi

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