[PLUG] running a mixed Debian system

Michael C. Robinson michael at goose.robinson-west.com
Fri Oct 31 15:24:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:03, Felix Lee wrote:
> "Michael C. Robinson" <michael at goose.robinson-west.com>:
> > The problem of vendors changing electronics or code in 
> > the same numbered version of a product where the change 
> > isn't transparent concerns me.
> 
> Hi.  Welcome to the Real World.  Hope you don't mind the mess.
> Yeah, it bothers me too, but whatcha gonna do.
> 
> Oh, and could you try to limit it to less than 10 questions in
> one message?  It's hard to keep up.
> --
> 
> _______________________________________________

Sorry, though it does cut down on the number of posts ;-)

At PSU a guy named Jeme something set up a Linux Lab on
Debian, but he used a testing version and many things were
clearly broken that normally aren't.  Add to this Jonathan
Nix deciding to take excessive class time focusing on XP, 
cs200 there was awful.  The thing that blew me away is how
strong the anti OSS anti Linux sentiment was.

I tried to complain to Cynthia Brown about not having a 
suitably Linux savvy instructor for the course, but I 
don't think she cared or even listened to what I said.  
I'll always wonder how I got through, I had fun doing
inline assembly in gcc despite the instructor's 
insistence everyone should use visual studio instead.  
I wish Jeme had showed a little more backbone about 
the resources for the class being Linux and not Windows
based.  I took the course with the understanding it
would be geared for Linux systems ending up unsupported
and criticized.  Leaves me wondering where to finish
my CS degree or if this degree isn't helpful for an 
aspiring Linux network security/systems specialist.

     --  Michael Robinson




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