[techtalk] Screen Savers

[Kath]

Thats awesome that they are using Linux (And Debian at that!).

I just got a job at USOnet and they are exclusively a WindowsNT/2000 shop
and I want to convince them to run a few Linux boxes.  :)

- Kath

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <scott at talon.net>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:53 AM
Subject: [techtalk] Screen Savers


> Not sure if any one on the list get's Tech TV, but they have a 90 minute
> call in geek show
> nightly called The Screen Savers.  Last night they did a show from Austin
> and one of
> the segments was a tour of the University of Texas at Austin computer
> center.  They
> showed off one of their main network machines.  132 processors, 5 tb of
> storage.  They
> did a close-up of the monitor on the cluster and it was Debian.  The guy
> asked if they ever
> considered running Windows and the Professor looked at him and laughed and
> said-never.
>
> The robotics lab is also running Linux, including their robots themselves.
>
> Now if I could convince the guys at work that it can handle anything!
>
> -sap
>
>
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