On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:40:28PM +0800, William Emmanuel S. Yu wrote: > > general adoption came much later when it was already picking up steam > in the private sector (ISPs were already using it long before a major > Ateneo mail/web server moved to Linux).
While this is partially true, it's not quite accurate, at least from my experience in UP Diliman. As early as 1995 UP Diliman had a whole lab of nearly two dozen machines all running an early version of Slackware, that was used in lieu of the old Turbo C/MS-DOS system that was previously used for elementary programming classes (Johann Tagle, I am sure, remembers very well what sort of a nightmare the old system was to administer, and it was for this reason that they made the move). The CompSci department here at UPD was using Linux in the same way at around the same time for its programming courses. Throughout my time there, the EEE laboratories were using Linux heavily, most especially in the instrumentation, control, and robotics (right, Orly?), and the computer networking laboratories. It would be inaccurate to characterize "wide adoption" for universities and academe with the migration of their core servers from proprietary OSes to Linux. I think a more accurate measure for a university or academic insitution would be the use of Linux in the classroom / computer laboratory environment and in its use by students and faculty in general for their own independent study. This is, after all, the core function of a university! -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
