[YLUG] Summer socials, other planning

[Richard Birnie]

On Friday 27 July 2007 12:53:26 Zoe Stephenson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Liam Wilson wrote:
> > --- Zoe Stephenson <zrs1 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > - I think Gnome is still the default in Computer
> > > Science, so the
> > > students may lean that way.
> >
> > I thought they used slackware. if so wouldn't it be
> > KDE only? Unless they put GNOME on them for some
> > reason.
>
> I am at my work computer in Computer Science, and it runs GNOME.  I
> also have the option of many other environments - xfce, KDE, fvwm, lwm,
> there's about a dozen options.  I guess we have a diverse crowd here.
> I would be surprised if it were much different for the students.
>
> /me waves to the guys across the corridor, who I'm pretty sure are on
> the list and organise all the department's Linux - comments?  Do we
> know what Linux exposure students get in other departments?

In the biology department very little at undergraduate level unless it's 
changed since I did my degree. Nick (either of them) or Roger would have 
better idea. The main computer labs are all XP and most of the research 
groups have Windows or OS X desktops. There are some fedora machines but I 
think they're more used by the research groups. In fact I think the person 
who administers them is on this list. Not sure what the bioinformatics 
masters people get exposed to.