RE: a Linux community at cornell?

["Alex Koch" <]

The academic discounts that Microsoft gives are a big boost for using their
software here.  But there's a lot of people who don't even understand what
linux is at all.

~ Alex

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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:53 AM
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Subject: Re: a Linux community at cornell?

Also, there is a campus site license for RHEL
<http://rhel-web.cs.cornell.edu/>.  IIRC, there are a few more mirrors for
other distros on campus as well.  Unfortunately, I have yet to find a
consolidated list of these.

On 8/24/06, Morgan Jones <> wrote:
> Thanfully, not every department is hostile to Linux.  Electrical 
> Engineering is in fact kind enough to host some Linux material on 
> their FTP server (ftp://ftp.ece.cornell.edu/pub/), including mirrors 
> of the Ubuntu and Fedora repositories.  Also, the ACCEL lab in 
> Carpenter Hall has Linux (Ubuntu) installed on every floor machine and is
open to everyone.
> They put a lot of work into making their Linux image usable _and_ useful.
>
> Morgan.
>
> > Hello Tristan,
> >
> > Welcome to Cornell!  The Cornell Linux community is pretty much the 
> > traffic on this e-mail list, plus an occasional install-fest held 
> > once or twice each year.  As you've already experienced, you will 
> > find the enlightened and the ignorant all around campus.
> >
> > There is an Ithaca Free Software user group, the "Ithaca Free 
> > Software Association (IFSA)"  (http://ithacafreesoftware.org) that 
> > holds monthly get-togethers and has their own e-mail list.
> >
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> > Tristan Lefebure wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> I'm quite new at cornell, and don't I'm wondering if there is a 
> >> Linux community here. My first impression was not that good. It was 
> >> really difficult to let the vet school IT guys allow me to install 
> >> linux on some Desktop of my lab (and it was worst when I began to 
> >> speak about servers...). "Linux is not secure", "why do you need 
> >> linux?", I was astonished... Then I realized that the CTC cluster 
> >> was running on windows...
> >> I finally realized that I should never pronounce the word linux to 
> >> an IT guy, because he would automatically answer: "Linux is not 
> >> supported at Cornell".
> >> So basically, is there a community here? a collection of distro 
> >> CDs? a good collection of tricks?
> >> Thanks
> >>
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