It is but it is still the same and people don't want to see that.Today it is too much commercial and intended to money and corruption.
Bertolt Brecht said, “Hungry one, reach for the book—it is a weapon.”
It is but it is still the same and people don't want to see that.Today it is too much commercial and intended to money and corruption.
I found myself waking up early, and those are the times I post stupid rants, so I will refrain. I will say though, that yeah, MS and Adobe provide the cheap software to students, so that when they get hired, they say, Oh you should use MS/Adobe for this graphics/programming etc.
I don't even know if it's evil or just smart business.
A degree in Computer Science was never a degree in "programming" and most(?) (real) universities and colleges never taught more than one language back in the dya. I was told even that was an elective.c# makes senses in computer oriented courses due to the demand from companies.
Any such professor or school is not one I would ever recommend learning from and be embarrassed to claim I went there. There are so many schools now that claim to offer degrees in CS but they are no more than trade schools.So it makes senses that bsd has no place or that it is even not known.
Is there a difference?I don't even know if it's evil or just smart business.
c# makes senses in computer oriented
This is actually a massive problem for us. All the students ever want to do is "fiddle about" inside a game engine called Unity with C# rather than learning about core topics in graphics programming.
The big issue is that Unity is a "prosumer" tool and as such they learn absolutely nothing useful with it. Worse still is that the company behind Unity has so much money and venture capital that they can keep pushing advertising. Especially on game development forums they are often full of bloody paid Unity Evangelists that so many potentially gifted graphics programmers are just brainwashed into becoming mediocre
It is also slowly weaseling its way further into "academia". We have more C# / Unity related units than C++ units now, which is absolutely hideous for a games programming course.
The worst part is that I also notice that Unity is killing the passion of my students. They have been told repeatedly from the advertising that "Unity is the best!" and yet they don't truly enjoy using it because the whole thing deep down is so damn amateur.
Anyway, [/rant] complete. Back to the topic haha.
Linux is often used in college for Unix/Linux administration courses (the closet you can get to a BSD OS in college), depending on the teacher and those who design the courses. However, it is run on a virtualized environment on top of... Microsoft Windows. At one point, Apple computers were used in American colleges, generally.My estimations knowing several universities and schools.
- Windows, Android and Mac are the most popular *they think that's the best*,
- If opensource is used, maybe 1-10% of universities or less, then it will be Linux (between 1 and 10 pct),
- *BSD* is almost not at all used for educational purposes by universities. Almost 0 percent or below 1pct. Using BSD by universities or teachers is very rare.
Education is closed source, and teachers and universities teach student how to not to use free Operating Systems, but rather how to use Microsoft Windows. Which is actually good, it is good to use Windows, because everyone does so. (man, what a modern believe )
Apple has done something similar in the past, by providing public schools with Macs, to gain them as repeat customers.Microsoft makes sure that programmers will be using Microsoft products. Microsoft will be always strongly present in our education system..
Hmm... maybe I should do that. Kidding.For those of you who don't know, Ninja_Root is best known for running a troll campaign at approximately 15-16 Linux forums last year.
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My university time started with programming courses in pascal on 80186 machines running SINIX. Later there was HP-UX, solaris, irix, ... and no windiws to be seen. But then again, this was a technical university. You could, as a student, obtain login on a cray if what you wanted to do was sufficiently scientific. And as long as you did not use more as some minutes of cpu time per week. On the smaller SGI, building and installing of xemacs took about 30 seconds cpu total (well, one node for longer, but the complete machine for that). Typing "make -j" and seing 100 compiler processes pop up... ahh the times... our department admin is still a NetBSD contributor. Linux entered the student pools only after that. *sheds a tear*
In Vietnam's Universities and Colleges (CS, IT, SE...), the BSDs are rarely mentioned. With them, Unix is a dead and obsolete (so does BSDs) and modern (replacement to) Unix, and superior is Linux.
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. You know... actual work, then it just becomes an absolute defective waste of time.OMG I have recent stories I wish I could tell. This current generation has gone over the edge.
Not the same thing and I'm hesitant to go on about it but I've noticed an overemphasis on "feelings" and hyper-analysis of words and phrases one uses in every day conversation and young people will get angry if they perceive a word used in the wrong way, to them, even to the point of quitting their job. "Be nice" means "allow anything" even if it means the ground crumbling beneath their feet.
- If opensource is used, maybe 1-10% of universities or less, then it will be Linux (between 1 and 10 pct),
- *BSD* is almost not at all used for educational purposes by universities. Almost 0 percent or below 1pct. Using BSD by universities or teachers is very rare.
Not in the case I'm talking about, though you're right. I'd write about what happened to me or what I've seen and heard but it's too much background or can be hard to follow the context.That's the Internet and the mom's basement guys which hang on it, it's not reality.
A friend of mine did indeed have a pentesting course mostly focused on using Kali and its default userland, so it's not like Linux is completely ignored. Fedora is quite wide spread in Rome's Universities, there's even a Linux support community in my Univeristy (which I've been part of for some months), mostly driver by Engineering and IT students. However I was surprised to see how poorly competent they were around Unix-like systems and how they would boast their incompetence disguising for God's knowledge in front of newcomers; I left disappointed.
I am very proud of Ninja_Root. That was a very appropriate response and speaks volumes to me about him as a person. This proves to me he recognizes kindness when he sees it, responds appropriately with gratitude and is grateful when good will is shown to him.
For those of you who don't know, Ninja_Root is best known for running a troll campaign at approximately 15-16 Linux forums last year. I shudder to think the chaos his questions and games must have created among those poor flightless birds and the loss of bowel control they must have endured over his words...
Everybody hated him, most thought it was several people or that he was a bot. Having bots myself, I knew from his responses he was human and the same person. I saw good qualities in him others apparently could not, perhaps because I can relate to him where they can't. What he really needed was a kind word and a little friendly guidance, so I provided it. I only participated in one thread, but he soon stopped trolling.
He did have a little setback here, but even I have my bad days. This is a game called Bait the Trap, though his technique needs polish. You ask a loaded question you already know the answer to and when the time/response is right you snap the trap and trip them up. I don't know what he had in store for Oko, but I know the game well and the only way you can win is not to play. I knew it the moment I saw it last year and what initially caught my interest.
But he has agreed to allow me to advise him and offer guidance in an effort to maximize his potential as a productive person and help him to deal with people on a more effective basis. He has told me he will no longer troll any forums, has never lied to me and always treated me with the same courtesy and respect I show him.
I'm not his boss and he has free will to do as he pleases, but I expect good things from Ninja_Root, I've spoken with him several times, he is quite reasonable and open to suggestion and I don't hold any of his past deeds against him. People can change.
And if you happened to be among those who defecated on their webbed feet, you have my deepest sympathy. It won't happen again.
Now we need to get him to run a FreeBSD box and make a real Daemon out of him.
Heh, we call that spoonfeeding. My colleague does the best impressionThere are in UK basically two interesting educative approaches : (1) you give materials (leading to fully dependence of student for his future career)
Heh, we call that spoonfeeding. My colleague does the best impression
In all fairness, some students do require a bit more of it than others or they simply will not get a degree at the end. How this relates to FreeBSD is actually very much the point. The spoonfed ones will simply never encounter FreeBSD (or anything else) unless we specifically put it on the course. Justifying FreeBSD in the intended learning outcomes on a games course is a hard one to put by the external examiners but other courses might have a bit more luck.
I wish I could say that learning FreeBSD will "help students realise the inner workings of the PS4's Orbis OS"... But unfortunately that is simply not the case and the external examiners are not stupid people haha. In the past some of ours actually worked for Sony and were there to add an industry perspective.
Android is always a disappointment. I wish they would get rid of that terrible Java crap and make the Android NDK (and cmake) the premier and supported toolchain. C/C++ cross compilers are used for the majority of commercial console games and teaching anything else is just daft. Especially since the Java-centric mess (Gradle) is harder to learn than C++/CMake and changes every year meaning you have just wasted your time.