[OS:N:] The Case for Linux in Universities

[Michael Tiemann <tiemann redhat com>]

I don't believe I have seen this on the list before, but it is one of the 
better pages I've seen on the topic.  It's also a great example of putting 
thought into action.  From the introduction:

I work at a company which designs and manufactures networking test equipment 
based on Linux. Every term, I hire a Los Angeles college student or grad for a 
programming internship, and am often dismayed to find they lack adequate 
exposure to Linux. This causes me to spend precious weeks bringing them up to 
speed. Recently, out of frustration, I wrote the CS department of one large Los 
Angeles university, asking why their graduates generally knew so little about 
Linux. The response was roughly

  The overwhelming demand both by industry and students (as related to me by
  faculty) at the undergrad level is for the use of PCs with Windows. We know
  Linux is coming, but our CS department does not (yet) plan to base a lab on
  it. If you can make a case for Linux, please do so, we'd like to hear it.

Fair enough; here goes...

<http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/case.html>