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

[Paul Nienaber]

stephen hawkes wrote:
> Paul Nienaber wrote:
>> stephen hawkes wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On a possitive note there were some rumors of uvic starting a linux 
>>> repo or mirror (I don't want to say what prof said that since it was 
>>> second hand to me, but my friend said he was quite excited about the 
>>> "possibility" or something along those lines).  That would be the 
>>> right step in UViv (or CSC at least) having an "official" distro 
>>> that would be supported on campus.
>> IMNSHO supporting one distro is about as good as supporting none at 
>> all.  Except then they can pretend they're doing something useful, 
>> while they're still not.  Boo ${OFFICIAL_DISTRO}!!!
>>
>> ~p
> Good point. However it would be a step in the correct direction. 
Direction?  UVic Computing/COUS/etc. is run in a business-like fashion.  
It "costs money" (in theory, whether or not it's actually setting anyone 
back anything) to provide support for more stuff.  Businesses only spend 
money on a problem if it makes the problem go away.  So, either they 
won't spend it, or they will probably be of the attitude that they spent 
money and therefore the problem should go away.
> 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 also gives UVic the option to select something (because there aren't 
really any super-obvious across-the-board choices)
> It would also mean that I wouldn't get ignored because of the OS I run 
> when my problems are not OS related.
>
My point was that you very well might.


~p