[SLUG] Re: RedHat at UOW

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:20:37PM +1000, Simon Males wrote:
> I'm guessing that he wishes to install Fedora on an UOW supplied 
> machine? If he brought his own hardware he could connect wirelessly 
> assuming he doesn't need any specific networked resources (though 
> printing could be a difficultly). I believe academics are (maybe were) 
> allowed to connect there laptops via ethernet.

Postgrads normally get to do whatever inhuman things they like to the
machines they get given, primarily on a "just don't expect us to help you
fix it" basis.  When I was in CompEng, most of the postgrads in TITR were
running Linux on their desktops, and nobody seemed to care.

> Further, the 3rd year Computer Science project lab use to have Fedora 2 
> or 3.

They'll probably be Debian Sarge now, like most of the rest of the CompSci
machines now.

- Matt