[wplug] Pitt Linux

[Henry Umansky]

I work here at the Linux lab and we just opened the lab on Monday, and Pitt 
doesn't usually advertise new labs.  The only advertisement was a 1/4 page 
article on the second page of the pitt news.  Anyway, this lab houses about 
50 computers, half red hat 7.1 half win 2k.  On monday, there was no one 
here, on tuesday, maybe 4 people, 1 Linux user, wednesday, a day after the 
Pitt news article, about 40 people all day (10% linux users), and today 
there was even more.  I have no idea why they call it a productivity lab, 
all I know is that the software installed on the Linux machine are 
virtually the same software as the windows machine, in other words both OS 
have "schoolwork-related apps".  Other than school work related apps, I 
don't know what other kind of applications they need.  Also, this is a 
proto-type lab (whatever that means), so if it's successfull (in terms of 
students and staff appreciation of Linux) then they will build more Linux 
boxes in other labs.  Also because it is a proto-type lab, if there is 
software that a student requests that is not installed, there is a very 
very good chance they can get that software installed (see if they will do 
that for the windows machines).

-Henry

--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:44 PM -0800 Bryon Gill 
<bgtrio at linuxfreemail.com> wrote:r

> Regarding the Masonic temple lab with the linux boxen, I have it on good
> authority that this lab is hard to find and on top of that is little-used
> because it is a "productivity lab", which apparently means that the
> applications (at least on the Microsoft Boxen) have been stripped down to
> schoolwork-related apps only.  As a result, maybe 2 people will use the
> lab on a typical day.
>
> So it seems like very few folks at Pitt will ever even know that the linux
> labs exist.  How sad.  They need an evangelist :)
>
>
> ____________________________
> Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jack wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to mention:
>>
>> I don't know when it opened--it was before the term I attended in spring
>> 2k1--but Point Park also has a Linux lab.  The teacher for the beginning
>> C class has her students use emacs to write & run their C programs.  I
>> thought it was pretty cool that not only did they open a lab, but they
>> were actively using it for at least one dev class (I don't know what
>> other classes were using it).
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