Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 835
The problem here is that each Linux distribution is quite different and they would probably have to choose which to support (can't be an expert in everything).
If they chose one then the department would probably still be criticised for forcing students to use a particular distro.
Whatever operating system - CANDE, VMS, HP-UX, Workbench, Fedora, VxWorks, QNX, Win3.11, Win95, XP, Vista - who cares if you're doing CS you have to learn whatever comes along. If you're not doing CS, unless you have to buy a new operating system it's an irrelevance (unless you hate Microsoft or Apple).