[wplug] Update on Pitt

[Henry Umansky]

There are a lot of departments that actually use linux, but this is the 
first computer lab available to all Pitt students/staff/faculty.  One small 
step for man, one giant leap for open source ;)

-Henry

--On Friday, February 01, 2002 9:14 AM -0500 John Harrold 
<harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu> wrote:r

> Sometime in January MICHAEL M DELANEY assaulted keyboard and produced...
>
> |The CS dept. uses linux?  A few of the grad TA's, proffs, and those
> others |lucky enough to have their own office might, on their box, but
> some of the |proff's also have sparcs and other non-pc's, it seems to be
> on kind of an |individal basis.  I was a CS TA over the summer, the boxes
> in the |undergrad ta/officeless proff's office were nt or 2k, they had
> the ability |to boot into some version of Red Hat, but I never saw anyone
> ever use it. |Also, the boxes in the econ lab are dual boot, but linux
> was only used |once in a while for clustering (I heard that from the guy
> who runs the |lab), but they bought a dedicated small "cluster", 4
> rackmounted sun |netra's.  The only publicly accessable linux boxes on
> campus that I know |of, other then the new lab, is the math lab in thack.
> |Mike
> |
>
> we use linux in our lab (grad students) on all of the machines but two.
> there is a lone nt machine and a laptop that dual boots. i work in a
> computational group in chemical enginnering. there are three other profs
> that do computational work and i'm pretty sure that the others use linux
> for their desktops and some of the computational work.
>
> --
> john
> "have algorithm-will travel"
>
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