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

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 5/6/06, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:

> The only reason I mention RedHat is that many North American scientific
> apps tend to refer to RedHat as thier linux operating base and provide
> RPMs only for that platform. Aside from that universities should be
> going ubuntu and not expecting desktop support from the vendor, but
> support from the local user base. That's cheaper anyway.
>
> For server stuff, obviously they want some contracted ongoing support.
> But, again, expecting this from a vendor is a bit boozy. They'd be
> better off with a local linux contractor(s) that can be called in.

I have no idea how well they compare (price-wise or service-wise) to
other solutions, but Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) actually
offer paid-support (with educational discounts) for their Ubuntu
distro:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/supportoptions/paidsupport

And I just noticed that they are also looking for a support engineer
based in Montreal to help with the paid-support they provide
(http://www.ubuntu.com/employment).


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Daniel Robitaille