I graduated from UT with a degree in CS a couple of years ago. Those Dell machines are God-sends compared the the Solaris ones they have. Last time I tried to u

I graduated from UT with a degree in CS a couple of years ago. Those Dell machines are God-sends compared the the Solaris ones they have. Last time I tried to use the Solaris machine it didn't have ls installed on it. I totally agree with you about the Linux setup. The first time I start fvwm2 I was like wtf is this. That actually encouraged me to figure out what a window manager was and how to start a different one. You are wrong about the overnight jobs (at least when I was there), you can only run them on certain servers that are designated for overnight jobs. For most cases you did not have to get permission. UT has enough money and computers that each student should be given their own vm.