[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Cat Clarkson]

I do have to be honest, when i had a moan i did get offered VM software to
install linux myself on, even though i couldnt have a dual boot, so at
least my request was accomodated in a way.

It isnt all bad, and there are some proper gem employees in IT - mike in
engineering is fab and doesnt seem to mind the odd direct email :)
On May 24, 2012 1:07 PM, "ForkBombFluf" <fluf at freeshell.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Louise Brown wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> They're not overenthusiastic about it but they set up my machine with
>> Windows and Ubuntu.  What they say is that they don't support Linux (maybe
>> that explains the lack of response to my query).  I think if you've a good
>> reason they'll do it for you.  In my case I'm running a cross-platform open
>> source project so I have to know that the software builds in Linux before I
>> release it.
>>
>
> Hi Louise, (& Cat too!),
>
> No, most won't be overenthusiastic, unfortunately, but that's because the
> majority are employed for their Windows proficiency, rather than
> familiarity with Linux. The journey into the less-known is a lot more
> effort when there's already a queue full of more familiar (read: easier to
> do) jobs to complete.
>
> I checked this morning, and the official word is that Linux is indeed
> "unsupported" in the eyes of Information Services.  That is not to say you
> *can't* get support for it, though, just that there are no official SLA's
> in place for it, so it becomes very much hit and miss depending upon whose
> lap the job falls into, how much they know about it, and how much time they
> have to dedicate to it at that moment.
>
> There is certainly no moratorium on running Linux at the University. Many
> people like yourself require it for multi-platform software development or
> to run applications which simply don't exist for Windows. There are
> certainly aspects of University research that just couldn't function
> without it, especially (and not surprisingly) in the science and
> engineering arenas!
>
> There is talk of developing some sort of framework for "official" support
> of OS's other than Microsoft Windows within IS, but progress is somewhat
> slow and hindered by the emergence of some very diverse ideas about how it
> should all be managed, and who by.
>
> Different departments have different needs, so the "one size fits all"
> concept often doesn't work out in reality quite the way management had
> envisioned it, nor quite in the way the vendors (in the case of externally
> purchased solutions, such as storage, printing, etc.) had promised them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Stef
>
>
>
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