Not at all odd in academia.  On the contrary, it is the norm.


Andrew Z wrote on 2/21/20 1:57 PM:
> It is odd that you have no budget to support critical systems for your
> department,  Yasha.
>
> What if you power servers down and see how "critical " they indeed are? And if
> they are not - then get fedora and be done with it.

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