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What kind of Dutch school is that? High school? I studied Computer Science at University of Amsterdam. I think I was the only one who was using windows. (I woul

by ma2rten 13y ago

What kind of Dutch school is that? High school? I studied Computer Science at University of Amsterdam. I think I was the only one who was using windows. (I would ssh into a university computer to do most programming).

lucb1e 13y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure I want to tie too much information to my alias publicly, but I guess with enough effort you can piece it together anyway (as far as I'm aware there are not that many open source events in the Netherlands today). I'm doing some IT study at Fontys. Not a university by Dutch standards, but their english name is "fontys university of applied sciences". In any case, we have one other Linux user in class and one macbook (I consider a Unix lookalike at least a tiny bit better than Windows), and we're an advanced class doing the study in three instead of four years. Some first year students I know (not doing the advanced track) are totally happy using Windows 8 with all the vendor's crap still in place.
- nperez 13y ago
  OS X is actually compliant with the UNIX spec. http://blog.opengroup.org/2012/07/25/apple-registers-mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-to-the-unix-03-standard/ http://blog.opengroup.org/2012/07/25/apple-registers-mac-os-... That's one of two reasons that I like using it. The other is that it will always run the Adobe CS painlessly. Can't really find that combination anywhere else.
tluyben2 13y ago
I studied CS/AI at UvA begin 90s and they had those horrible win 3.1 machines (the sysadmin there hated them); a lot of my classmates preferred that over the unix machines. Nice to hear that improved.
rolfvandekrol 13y ago
In the Netherlands, there is a vast difference in Linux usage between universities and HBO/MBO schools. At the company I work for, we regularly have interns from a HBO school and virtually none of them ever worked on Linux. We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship.
- lucb1e 13y ago
  > We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship. google-google Awh in Rotterdam, a bit too far away for me. Sounded like an interesting place to intern at! Edit: No way to escape asterisks it seems, they'll be italic ifnot surrounded by whitespace no matter what :/

by ma2rten 13y ago

lucb1e 13y ago

Hmm, I'm not sure I want to tie too much information to my alias publicly, but I guess with enough effort you can piece it together anyway (as far as I'm aware there are not that many open source events in the Netherlands today). I'm doing some IT study at Fontys. Not a university by Dutch standards, but their english name is "fontys university of applied sciences". In any case, we have one other Linux user in class and one macbook (I consider a Unix lookalike at least a tiny bit better than Windows), and we're an advanced class doing the study in three instead of four years. Some first year students I know (not doing the advanced track) are totally happy using Windows 8 with all the vendor's crap still in place.

nperez 13y ago
OS X is actually compliant with the UNIX spec. http://blog.opengroup.org/2012/07/25/apple-registers-mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-to-the-unix-03-standard/ http://blog.opengroup.org/2012/07/25/apple-registers-mac-os-... That's one of two reasons that I like using it. The other is that it will always run the Adobe CS painlessly. Can't really find that combination anywhere else.

tluyben2 13y ago

I studied CS/AI at UvA begin 90s and they had those horrible win 3.1 machines (the sysadmin there hated them); a lot of my classmates preferred that over the unix machines. Nice to hear that improved.

rolfvandekrol 13y ago

In the Netherlands, there is a vast difference in Linux usage between universities and HBO/MBO schools. At the company I work for, we regularly have interns from a HBO school and virtually none of them ever worked on Linux. We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship.

lucb1e 13y ago
> We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship. google-google Awh in Rotterdam, a bit too far away for me. Sounded like an interesting place to intern at! Edit: No way to escape asterisks it seems, they'll be italic ifnot surrounded by whitespace no matter what :/