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# From: Lou Glassy <lglassy@mtech.edu>
<define-tag pagetitle>Montana Tech, Butte, Montana, USA</define-tag>
<define-tag webpage>http://www.mtech.edu/</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::users
<p>
At the CS Department of Montana Tech, we run Debian 3.0 on our two main
department servers (one's the nfs server, the other's the main server
people use for interactive off-campus logins), and on 11 other hosts
set up as a general-purpose lab used by roughly 60 students of three of
our courses.
</p>
<p>
We have no assigned systems administrator, so it was very important that
our systems run with a minimum of fuss, day in and day out. Debian 3.0
has lived up to this challenge: the students use our servers for
networking assignments, C and C++ programming, and the systems have
been trouble-free.
</p>
<p>
Debian's package system (we usually just access it via dselect) is
a big win. Security updates are hassle-free, and our systems meet
our current needs quite comfortably. I've used a variety of
commercial Unixes, and Debian's packaging system and reliability
beats them all, hands-down. (For what it's worth, I've been a
full-time systems administrator in both academic and industry
settings, so my experience with commercial systems has been both
prolonged and painful...)
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