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At Exeter be assured that linux is made to work quite hard in a variety of environments. In the Sciences where Unix was traditionally the OS of choice, Linux is to be found in use on the desktop and behind the scenes providing file sharing and number crunching facilities. Linux has enabled the replacement of Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations with much cheaper (though perhaps a little more unreliable) P.C. hardware. I would be surprised if a similar situation did not exist at Plymouth. Indirectly Linux and Open Source software has spawned a range of tools that enable our technical staff access to tools that would otherwise eat up a significant budget. Tools such as Memetest-86, Parted and Partition Image are freely available and allow a tight budget to stretch a little further. (Partition Magic Pro 5 user is currently around £160 so I suspect that the full technician version for unlimited use could approach £1k) I hesitate to say how many Linux systems are in use at Exeter . But a mass rollout of Linux boxes for undergraduate use across the Uni would appear to be quite unlikely. On Friday 02 May 2003 11:36 am, you wrote: > >?The Computing Services don't support Linux, I don't need their support > >?but they wouldn't even tell me the SMTP relay name! I found it by > >?reading headers of emails. > > Do they support anything non-Windows? Do they support Mac OS X? If they do, > might be worth pointing out that Linux isn't really so dissimilar. -- Phil Vossler Electronics Workshop School of Physics University of Exeter tel: 01392 264100 fax: 01392 264111 email: p.j.vossler@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.