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Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA



On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:45:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:

> This isn't typical at all; I went to SUNYIT two weeks ago to check it
> out (I submitted an application, haven't heard yet though) and most of
> their PCs run either FreeBSD or Gentoo Linux. The non-computer science
> PCs run Windows though, but that is out of the proffesor's grasp.

I don't even know what SUNYIT stands for.

I asked a computer lab assistant at SUNY Stony Brook about this story. All
their lab PCs have CD and USB booting switched off, and the BIOS
password-protected. And the cases padlocked.
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