• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Cortana being reinstalled after I “deleted” it was the impetus for me to swap to Linux in the first place.

    That and I was a CS student and our assignments had to run on Solaris which is closer to Linux than Windows.

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        1 month ago

        No Canada, and even then it was a bit of a relic.

        It was slowly being replaced by vagrant in some courses and I think after I left I’m pretty sure they replaced whatever hardware it was on with something running Linux.

        I remember it was mildly annoying because the Java compiler on it was a bit old and different in some way, though I can’t really remember how.

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          Alright. 😄 We also had a couple Solaris servers at my uni. They had the names “itchy” and “scratchy”.

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            Ours didn’t have fun names., or at least not ones that were exposed to students. I honestly didn’t know too much about about them but I suspect at the time Sparc systems were one of the larger machines compute wise you could get outside of mainframes. So very suitable for a university multiuser setup.