Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
These discussions about RedHat at Cant. Uni have me wondering. One of my sons is starting a Computer Science course at Cant. Uni. This year. For the past couple of years I have been espousing the virtues of Linux to him but he has stuck with MS.
Will he be "compelled" to "see the light" when he gets to uni?
This could probably be arranged if you point him out to us :-)
Stage one Computer Science uses java for the first half of the year RedHat 9 Linux with java version "1.4.2" is what they will be using (with a java IDE). It is probably all available for windows somewhere but that is what is in our labs (on 1800 Athlon machines with 19" screens)
But, unless they play around with the account and machine, it won't look a lot different from a windows setup. Stage two has the same setup, but they start looking at the OS.
That should be enough from me -- otherwise Marketing might want me to join them....
The above all depends on if Zane can get them enrolled :-) <just a little cross campus dig :-) > Pete
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Glassenbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:17 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; stm23
Subject: Re: Redhat
stm23 wrote:
hi, i've just purchased a new laptop & wanted to install the latest
version of
the Redhat OS - so that i can replicate the canterbury university's cosc
lab
computers.
We are not running the latest version -- Sticking to RH9 and leaving fedora
etc for another year.
does any1 know where i can find a copy? are there any installfests coming up, like last year?
Others have offered the RH9 disks... we do have a few extras sitting on network disks. I am not sure if we are putting out a COSC CD this year but you could probably just plug into the IT public network ports (NOT ours) and copy any other packages. All our machines are setup via kickstart from PXE boot and have quite a bit of local tailoring -- so the laptop might not work too well off-campus if you installed it here :-)
also how much space does the OS takeup?
About 6 Gig - at some time we might sort out how to use that 29Gig sitting spare :-)
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 37334192 5476656 29961064 16% / /dev/hda1 101089 19816 76054 21% /boot
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