Go to google.com and enter the search "linux site:ufl.edu" -- you get over 2,000 hits, such as
http://www.circa.ufl.edu/linux/ -- the University of Florida Linux Page http://www.software.ufl.edu/matlab/ -- site license for MATLAB includes Linux http://wireless.ece.ufl.edu/~jshea/ -- professor who links to Linux scientific applications http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/linux.html -- looks like statistics faculty http://www.mil.ufl.edu/publications/linux/commandline.html -- machine intelligence lab http://www.lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=linux-l&A=1 -- subscribe to the UF's Linux mailing list! Well, you get the idea -- why are you being given the third degree when UF clearly uses Linux all the time? Good luck!
