[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[RogerWalkuprwalkup at cheqnet.net]

"Aaron D. Teche" wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:27:26PM -0500, Roger Walkup wrote:
> > Apple did the samething in the k-12 schools.  From my personal experience as
> > an *old* (40) student and a part time worker in one of the tech offices at
> > University of Wisconsin-Superior, the people who run the labs, maintain the
> > network, and take care of the staff/faculty offices are pretty ignorent about
> > unix of any sort and, in some cases, little better than power users of MS
> > software (eg. they know how to install a custom version of Office 2000).  The
> > computer science dept has bought *an* Ultra 10 which will be used as a server
> > for compsci classes next year.  Most of the comp sci profs are big fans of
> > NeXT, but that's dead.  A recent grad donated 4-5  classics, but they're not
> > all running yet.  Looking around on the internet, I don't see much difference
> > in other UW campuses.  It's a wasteland.
> >
>
> Here, at UW-Madison, there is a lot of Sun stuff floating around.  I help
> admin a smallish department with about 60 Sparcstations.  We have
> still have sun4c machines in production as singal task machines.
> We have all of the sun4c machine running sol2.6 without CDE.
>
> While, we do have some WinNT Terminal Server boxes to give the clerical staff
> a work platfrom and allow the faculty to exchange documents, the majority of
> the work is done under Solaris or Linux.
>
> The state contract with Microsoft doesn't force us away from UNIX.
>
> Aaron
>
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I apologize.  I know there are a few unix machine in Milwaukee too, but for the
most part it seems pretty barren.    January '99, we got a prof who had been
teaching in Germany; he was shocked that 1 student in an advanced class could
download and access a postscript file.   Everyone else was moaning and groaning
because they all had wintel laptops or desktops.  And it's not like he's a big
unix person;  he's really more hardware and VAX os.

Roger