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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Also, if Scott's statements are to be true/believed to be the basis, then university is meant for exactly that - it's not meant to teach you specifics.
I'm not sure when going to college meant that you were learning job skills that you would walk out of School and directly into a good paying job - that's what internships are for.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
I think Scott's question is pre university. This is also ultimately why university is nearly useless to IT folks.
This topic is going to require a different post eventually, but do you think somebody needs to remarket IT to be more of a skill/trade instead of a career?
That's a great question - and to answer it simply - YES. IT is to broad, it's not a career. Network Admin, DBA, Systems Admin - these are careers. Understanding IT is a the skill that allows you to do these jobs.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
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@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.
Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.
Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.
Dreamspark is very inexpensive to colleges. But that's not really where you would be using it. Most lab environments in multiple colleges were Microsoft based. Even the sysadmin labs are almost 100% Microsoft.. due to Microsoft basically giving away licenses to college for academic purposes.
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@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.
Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.
Dreamspark is very inexpensive to colleges. But that's not really where you would be using it. Most lab environments in multiple colleges were Microsoft based. Even the sysadmin labs are almost 100% Microsoft.. due to Microsoft basically giving away licenses to college for academic purposes.
Well that sucks, because mine wasn't that way.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.
Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.
Dreamspark is very inexpensive to colleges. But that's not really where you would be using it. Most lab environments in multiple colleges were Microsoft based. Even the sysadmin labs are almost 100% Microsoft.. due to Microsoft basically giving away licenses to college for academic purposes.
Well that sucks, because mine wasn't that way.
That's unfortunate, kind of. The school I went to had professors who were at one point IT managers back in the day. So they weren't as up-to-date with the tech as they thought. It was myself and a few other students who really pushed them to teach new material. I guess if you're teaching just the basics then you wouldn't need to update the technology constantly.
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@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Understanding what a network file system is?
Just so I'm on the same page - do you mean like NFS and SMB?
Those are network filesystems, yes.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
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@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
I think Scott's question is pre university. This is also ultimately why university is nearly useless to IT folks.
University isn't useless. I know that I rail against it a lot, but university can be great. What it is specifically bad for is for getting you a job or increasing your income. Those aren't its purpose. University is to broaden your thinking and prepare you for many different things in life. It is absolutely not supposed to prepare you for a specific job (that's a trade school) and as a by product of that, it has no intention of and little hope of increasing your lifetime earnings. That's not why you go to university. So university retains the value that it always had, but people today just see value in nothing but money and see it as bad.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
I think Scott's question is pre university. This is also ultimately why university is nearly useless to IT folks.
This topic is going to require a different post eventually, but do you think somebody needs to remarket IT to be more of a skill/trade instead of a career?
What's the difference?
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@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.
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@Dashrender said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
I'm not sure when going to college meant that you were learning job skills that you would walk out of School and directly into a good paying job - that's what internships are for.
It never meant that. It never used to teach direct skills whatsoever. That's why people got degrees in letters and things like that. Clearly not a job skill. That schools even offer degrees in things like IT is pretty wrong. What does a BS in IT even really mean? IT would require, at a trade level, way more than a BS can teach even if focused. IT would be graduate work, like five years of work after getting a BS. Like a medical doctor. You can't get a four year degree in being a doctor or a lawyer! Why can you in IT?
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@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
Deals that actually produce income! And MS Provides the course materials.
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@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@coliver said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
Wait what? Every university/college I have talked to that has an IT program is predominantly Windows and Cisco based. Microsoft has some great deals for education and it is the "market" leader as many professors I've talked to profess. I have a fairly large sample size but it's limited to two states at this point in time.
I never used Cisco in my classes. If anything, they taught me the basics of routing, but was agnostic about the network environment. Pretty much they went from "Okay, you know how to subnet. Lets get into WAN management" and that was it.
Unless you go to Dreamspark to download your software as a student, you only get the 6-month license and that will last for only a couple of classes.
Dreamspark is very inexpensive to colleges. But that's not really where you would be using it. Most lab environments in multiple colleges were Microsoft based. Even the sysadmin labs are almost 100% Microsoft.. due to Microsoft basically giving away licenses to college for academic purposes.
Well that sucks, because mine wasn't that way.
That's unfortunate, kind of. The school I went to had professors who were at one point IT managers back in the day. So they weren't as up-to-date with the tech as they thought. It was myself and a few other students who really pushed them to teach new material. I guess if you're teaching just the basics then you wouldn't need to update the technology constantly.
Correct, if they were teaching properly from the beginning, there is little need to be up to date. But because they try to cheap out and teach rudimentary trade skills they need to stay up to date and burn themselves. But students keep paying, so what do they care.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.
How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.
It can happen, but I've attended many colleges, taught at others, sat on the board of others, work with them all of the time and trust me, Windows dominates. Sure there are exceptions, that's one of the problems with college work is that unless you do something specific to expose yourself to many colleges in different areas you have no idea what the comparative market is like. Each college is so unique that some people think college is hard, some thing it is easy, some think it is time consuming, some sleep through it...
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@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.
How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.
The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.
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@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@NerdyDad said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:
Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific
Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.
But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.
VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.
College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)
I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.
How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.
The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.
But Cygwin sees the Windows NTFS filesystem, not a Linux one. There is no Linux, at all, with Cygwin. What the heck did they think that they were showing to you?
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This is a great example of how far off professors often are. Using Windows to teach Linux because they didn't realize that Windows wasn't Linux!
