What (if any) linux does your college use?

[Griff]

My school has windows/mac/sun/linux computer labs. In terms of linux we used suse until this summer. Now it's all ubuntu ( :D ). The switch happened when all the linux machines were replaced with new dual-core behemoths (20" widescreen monitors too, yay!). It made me wonder. What does your school employ?

[Nepherte]

The computer science department uses Ubuntu only.
The electrical engineering department used to have Red Hat, but recently switched to CentOS.
The rest of the university uses Windows XP / Ubuntu.

[RiceMonster]

Red Hat. Other than that, they use Windows XP

[grossaffe]

George Mason University has Fedora on their linux boxes.

[Joeb454]

None on the workstations (I think a few have Fedora vm's on though).

There's a Fedora 8 server somewhere too (not sure if it's upgraded to Fedora 9)

[y@w]

The school I went to wanted nothing to do with open source or anything not made by Microsoft or Cisco. But just before I graduated, machines running live CDs of slax started showing up in the library randomly. I'm guessing they didn't want the headache of imaging the workstations and just needed to be able to reboot them every day with a fresh image.

[Orlsend]

My School were given free lincense's for the Windows OS, We only Have like 23

I think they have XP rigth now

[piousp]

My college used to have openSuse. Now they have Ubuntu!
Also, they got some sun workstations with solaris!

[Bachstelze]

Fedora on our workstations and one some servers, and Debian on other servers I guess. Also some Windows rooms for the engineering software that works only on it. Fedora is quite decent, but I don't use it much anyway since I bring my laptop to do my work on. Wouldn't use it at home, though.

[Pinoy915]

I do not know about now but when I was a Computer Science major, they had XP/Fedora. I am a Computer Engineer major now and they use XP/CentOS.

[happysmileman]

Not in college yet but the one I plan to go to uses Suse and XP (At least they did when I went there at some point in the last year)

[jomiolto]

XP and Fedora Core dual-boot on regular computers, no Linux on servers (we've got AIX and Solaris instead :D ).

[grizzlelegend]

Every Computer Vista or XP... :(

[slmouradian]

They use Debian and XP in my dept.

[Polygon]

The school I went to wanted nothing to do with open source or anything not made by Microsoft or Cisco. But just before I graduated, machines running live CDs of slax started showing up in the library randomly. I'm guessing they didn't want the headache of imaging the workstations and just needed to be able to reboot them every day with a fresh image.

my college uses mostly mac os x and windows xp/vista, and they have this really nifty program called Deep Freeze which basically either deletes any chances made to the installation when its rebooted, or it just re-images the disk...either way, if you install something or screw something up, you just reboot and it boots up like they first just set up the computer, so its impossible to bork them.

[Newuser1111]

my college uses mostly mac os x and windows xp/vista, and they have this really nifty program called Deep Freeze which basically either deletes any chances made to the installation when its rebooted, or it just re-images the disk...either way, if you install something or screw something up, you just reboot and it boots up like they first just set up the computer, so its impossible to bork them.But it's easy to remove DeepFreeze.

[sephiroth2212]

Windows and Solaris

[Jordanwb]

My high school's server runs Novell does that count? The only other computer that ran Linux was when I brought my laptop to school.

[zachtib]

I know we have SUSE boxes around campus, and possibly some Redhat as well. There's also an Ubuntu box in the ACM lab (but that's student run)

[bigbrovar]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2696324825_44fefb3af3_d.jpg
ubuntu all the way

[Bölvaður]

None on the workstations (I think a few have Fedora vm's on though)

And I think the user data are kept on Suse.

[Xanatos Craven]

There's a few lab rooms with old Fedora installs, most of them dual-boot. Not sure how old, but I recall pre-1.0 versions of Firefox being on them.

The college is almost entirely Windows, though, and no Macs whatsoever. I imagine this has something to do with all of their educational software being Windows-only.

[armageddon08]

Our Computer Science Department uses RedHat. All others use Windows XP. We guys have been provided laptops and our college server hosts Fedora for us to download. So most of the students use Fedora8/9 dual-booted with WinXP. But I dual-boot XP and Hardy.

[BrokenKingpin]

When I was in college (been out for a year now) we had to have a Linux distro on our personal laptop. The college wanted us to use SuSE so most of the class used that. I used Ubuntu because I hate SuSE.

[zmjjmz]

My school's (ok, not college, highschool) IT guy is die hard Win2K/WinXP.
There was a Vista machine once, but it was quarantined in bubble wrap until the IT guy installed XP on it.

[vanden12]

I go to Oakland Community College and all we have is windows...

You guys are way more lucky..

[Polygon]

But it's easy to remove DeepFreeze.

no it isnt...the account that you get to use (default one) doesn't have permissions to uninstall programs. so unless your suggesting booting from a live cd and erasing the files, i dunno if that would work cause i dunno if the computer would even start up. Hell, they may even have boot from cd turned off and the bios locked, so your kinda screwed there.

either way, its to prevent random people from messing up the installation, im sure its not meant to deter determined tech savvy people, cause im sure a staff member or someone else would wonder what the hell your doing.

[LateNiteTV]

we had an fc4 lab, solaris 8 lab, hp-ux 11i lab, and an osx lab.