[Discuss] UVic's new portal now available to students, unless they use Firefox

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stephen hawkes wrote:
> 
> Good point. However it would be a step in the correct direction. I am 
> definitely not going to switch which distro I run so I can run UVic's 
> official distro (if that were to happen anyhow, huge if there). Having 
> an official linux distro would mean that sites would have to run with 
> something other than IE. I don't think I would need OS specific support 
> from a help desk anyhow, but it gives an option to students that want to 
> run an up-to-date OS that is free. It would also mean that I wouldn't 
> get ignored because of the OS I run when my problems are not OS related.

The reason universities have thier own distro is to allow them to 
provide support to newbies. They just pick one distro as a standard
so that when people ask for assistance the tech can say, "go to
widget A and press button B...etc.".
They'd most likely select RedHat, although debian/ubuntu could
squeek in.

Peter