[wplug] Stuff at Pitt

[David Gerard Matthews Jr.]

Bryon Gill wrote:
> But now I run linux and by ssh'ing into Pitt, I can forward the X
> connection and a netscape browser appears on my desktop.  

How do you do this?  Sounds cool.

BTW, this evening I made my first visit to Pitt Linux lab.  The boxen
seem to be pretty well-equipped desktop Linux workstations, with RH and
Gnome.  I don't know how many people will be using them that aren't
already *nix fans, but could possibly win some people over.  The only
thing that might scare a newbie off is that after logging in, you are
greeted with a console prompt.  I'd prefer to go straight into X, but
that's just me.
-dgm






Lots of
> people's first interactions with *nix seem to be through a telnet/mail
> situation like mine, and they associate unix with Microsoft Telnet.  Ick.
> 
> Just some thoughts.  Sorry to clog your boxen.
> ____________________________
> Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, kf3cr wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:
> >
> > > I worked in the labs for 1 1/2 years.  Pitt has an agreement with MS to give
> > > away the software.  Pitt "pays" for the CDs and can burn as many as they
> > > want.  As for the Linux machines in the Masonic temple, they are RH machines
> > > with Flat Screens.  They are pretty nice but I think that they are lacking
> > > some software.  I feel that they should have put StarOffice on it.  The only
> > > word process that I saw was gedit.  It's definitly better then the Sun
> > > machines that they have setup, well at least for the average students.  I
> > > never really thought about seeing if Pitt will hand out linux.  I could talk
> > > to one of the Head people in CSSD and see what he says.  Oh yeah, You can
> > > get them anytime, but you can only get one copy.
> > >
> >       You can get StarOffice and a bunch of other crazy applications on
> > the sun machines in the Beh lab.  Type "setup -list" to get a list of
> > them.  I cant seem to figure out how to get staroffice to run at the
> > moment, but I was using it last semester on the sun machines.
> >
> >
> > > Chris
> > >
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