This is a very good point. I mostly learned Unix in a corporate environment, but the same logic holds: somebody else had set up and maintained the systems.
// I'm afraid there's not much we can do about this. Other, obviously, than getting uni types to use it there. Plan 9 (like Inferno) has quite a bit to offer from pedagogical view. // Trinity College Dublin Pretty campus, warm sweatshirts. Convince your IT folks. ;-) anthony