Not at all odd in academia. On the contrary, it is the norm.
Andrew Z wrote on 2/21/20 1:57 PM:
It is odd that you have no budget to support critical systems for your
department, Yasha.
What if you power servers down and see how "critical " they indeed are? And if
they are not - then get fedora and be done with it.
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