This is a very good point. I mostly learned Unix in a corporate
environment, but the same logic holds: somebody else had set
up and maintained the systems.

// I'm afraid there's not much we can do about this.

Other, obviously, than getting uni types to use it there. Plan 9
(like Inferno) has quite a bit to offer from pedagogical view.

// Trinity College Dublin

Pretty campus, warm sweatshirts. Convince your IT folks. ;-)

anthony