I'm glad to announce that, for the last 10 days, the mac room instaled in UPMC functions. It is just close to a room with PC under windows/linux and is specially reserved to some students of 2d year of master. We already had classes on Eclipse and spin using those. For spin, students were almost equally divided between the two architectures (the soft is installed both on mac and linux). There seems to be still some configuration issue with windows;-)
Students do like this heterogeneity of environment and they seem to have fun using those... just get a look to the compared audiences before my lessons this morning (sure, I did take those pics at the same time, I swear;-). Yet, this door leads to the mac room.
The students accounts are located on a remote NFS server and it's the same main register, on PC/Linux as for MacOS X. The same goes for the login which is managed via a LDAP server common to the two architectures. On the other hand, the distribution/software installation system is different (as PCs won't have the chance of being served by a Xserve;-).
Things almost got possible thanks to Apple's offer of eMacs for universities with configurations deprived of CD readers, which makes the CPU + screen unit more competitive... if they go on with this more people will get to know it is possible to escape Bill G'w world... yet, it's not mere propagande yet an educational choice that made us wish we'd gave the 3 major OSes of computer world in the same room.
