Ask HN: Comp Sci departments' default OS: Linux, Mac, Windows?
For all you students and teachers, what is your department, your school (please), and what is the OS that you teach students on and do research on?
The school is mostly Windows for user-facing machines, with OS X machines also available. The university-wide HPC machines are running Solaris 8.
The CS Department also uses OS X and Windows in the labs, but usually kept much closer to the most recent release. Most professors in the department expect you to sign on the Solaris machines to do work. The HPC machines are running CentOS.
Cal Poly SLO, Computer Science - Fedora