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Hi John, This is great to know. And, of course, the whole Digital Learning Environment is open source, too, right? Hosted by University of London. So, one of the main things our students and staff see from day to day is open source. I think what Rod, myself, and some others would like to see is more acceptance of Linux as a platform for staff and student users. Plymdesk, providing basically all staff desktops/laptops and public workstations is Windows only, with a locked BIOS. Same for applications. Office tools are exclusively Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. Stats is SPSS. Technical computing is MATLAB. Most administrative documents I receive from the university are in MS Office formats. Anyway, good to hear from you, and hope to see you at a future Plymouth / Plymouth Uni LUG :-) All the best Andy Wills, Psychology, Plymouth University On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:24:18PM +0000, John Horne wrote: > Apologies for the delay in replying; lots going on and only just > starting to catch up with mail. > > On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 14:17 +0100, Rod Sheaff wrote: > > Do any of you work at Plymouth Uni, or have recently? > > > Yes, I work there. I am the Linux sysadmin for the Uni central servers. > (We also had some UNIX servers up until a few years ago, but they got > replaced with Linux.) > > > After years of agitating along the 'Why don't you use open source?' > > line I have been invited to discuss this with one of the IT honchos > > so would like to brief myself as well as I can first. > > > The Uni does use open source, in fact their website runs on Debian > servers (in total 6 of them, and another 4 for development). The > inbound email goes through CentOS servers (until a short while ago the > outbound did as well). In addition there are about 20 or so other > servers doing various tasks. All are running CentOS, bar one > development server running RHEL and two others which run Ubuntu. We > have run Linux since the 90's (I know because I introduced it into the > central services)! > > However, this is all from the non-academic/non-teaching side. I > couldn't say anything about 'teaching' Linux. > > I would be interested who the 'IT honcho' is, but I suspect you're not > going to say :-) > > > > > John. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 > Plymouth University, UK > ________________________________ > [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/images/email_footer.gif]<http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/worldclass> > > This email and any files with it are confidential and intended solely for the use > of the recipient to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient > then copying, distribution or other use of the information contained is strictly > prohibited and you should not rely on it. If you have received this email in error > please let the sender know immediately and delete it from your system(s). Internet > emails are not necessarily secure. While we take every care, Plymouth University > accepts no responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan emails > and their attachments. Plymouth University does not accept responsibility for any > changes made after it was sent. Nothing in this email or its attachments > constitutes an order for goods or services unless accompanied by an official order > form. > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq