Do college students use Linux?

[Zackariah]

I'm in College and use Linux

[Selcal]

i work for the Feds and i use Linux. Our accountability system may soon get an upgrade from MS servers to Suze.

DON'T PANIC!
Feds=military

[cellerit]

I'm in a computer science and engineering school in France and most of the school computers have linux install. I'd say 30% linux (fedora, redhat ... ) 30% dual boot with win xp and the rest winxp only. Well its mainly a computer science and electronics school so seems logical.

[jayaramk]

yuo me too in college and i use ubuntu

[dward526]

I am a student who has returned to college after 7 years. I used Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse) before, but I have noticed a (about 40%) of students in my program (IT and Networking Tech) use Linux. It runs clean and fast, and you can run the XP environment required for half the course in Virtualbox or VMWare.

[FurryNemesis]

Although my university is a MS place, the CS students do have a "non-windows" room running Linux and BSD - apart from that, all campus computers run off an XP network, which is sort of a necessary evil because of all the subject specific software the campus runs (about 50 different programs, most of which are Windows-Specific.).

I can't even get onto the university wifi with my ubuntu laptop, as they use MS certificates for login and so far I've not found a way around it. Also, their brand new just-installed-this-year machines take a full five minutes from power on to usable desktop. The old ones take ten. This is a pain in the **** when you need notes in a hurry.

Granted, I can see why we need all the MS stuff, but if only they'd use more open standards it would be much better. I have to carry around the OO.org portableapp - we don't even have that on the campus machines.

[macogw]

Haha the umd-secure wireless network at the University of Maryland is like that too. they only have support for XP and certain chipsets under XP (though they give you directions on how to set it up if you don't have their requirements..since it just seems to be a certificate and certain settings).

But it doesn't work in Vista (they realize that) or OSX or Linux (they also realize it doesn't work so well for these two either). So we just have to use the regular umd (which requires you to logon with your university ID and password. Kinda annoying when your going from class to class.

Class A: *logs onto wireless* Uses it for session
Walks to Class B (in a different building)
Class B: *logs onto wireless yet again*

To bad they can't set it up so the wireless networks all work together. They're all called umd and they all link into the same Maryland server and what not. But it doesn't seem to recognize you (despite them saying they give you two hour sessions) when you change wireless routers.

We have the routers that hand-off the signal in the library at GWU, and they're >$1000 a piece, which is probably why you guys don't have them. I'm just wondering who goes jogging around the library using their laptop :/ Why wouldn't you have to re-log-on anyway, though? Don't you shut down between classes? I used to try keeping my laptop on and just shoving it in the bag, but there's no air and it overheats.

[TheTruth34]

i use linux on my computer but i type all my big reports in the university computer labs(which use XP exclusively) so i don't have to buy so much ink and paper =P

[macogw]

i use linux on my computer but i type all my big reports in the university computer labs(which use XP exclusively) so i don't have to buy so much ink and paper =P

Don't you have to pay for printing at school? You could still do them in LaTeX on your computer to get really nice equations on the science and math ones, then have LaTeX output a pdf which you can print on the Windows boxes. I use pdf for anything going between platforms.

[TheTruth34]

Don't you have to pay for printing at school? You could still do them in LaTeX on your computer to get really nice equations on the science and math ones, then have LaTeX output a pdf which you can print on the Windows boxes. I use pdf for anything going between platforms.

i didnt even kno there was such a thing lol, ill have to try that out, off to learn about latex =) thanks