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#! rnews 2199 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.17.0.18!geni018.geninet.com!usenet From: "Jason Earl" <jearl@box100.com> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 7 Apr 1997 14:56:55 GMT Organization: Basic American Foods Lines: 28 Message-ID: <01bc4364$1314c490$8934e3cc@rx_jearl> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <5i47ee$iqk$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5i4odm$gnc$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <87k9mhsteq.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <slrn5kdrbe.78.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.227.52.217 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19928 comp.os.linux.misc:168509 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38678 Andrew Costa <c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> wrote in article <slrn5kdrbe.78.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca>... > What's truly disturbing, to me at least, is some college IT courses > don't teach unix either! My college was MS-happy. Windows windows > windows dos windows windows and, oh, a little bit of VMS. No unix > whatsoever. Their explanation was, unix doesn't count because it's > just about dead and will be finished once NT really catches on. > > My final project, in the Electronics course, involved a Linux based > server (that I set up from scratch) that was to become the electronics > departmental server. The IT department wouldn't let it on the college > network: considered it a security threat. Wouldn't budge no matter > what. It was unix, they wanted no part of it. > > Unbiased and educational, huh? > I don't suppose you would care to tell us where you went to school. That is certainly the kind of thing that people should know before applying. Then again perhaps that wouldn't be a good idea. NT has its own security problems, and I would hate to be responsible for them getting hacked :). -- Jason Earl jearl@box100.com "Cheaper than the Psychic Friends Network."