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“Linux uses internet and industry standard components and
protocols giving a system with complete network integration. The operating
system can act as a server for most major file serving protocols, and provide
all the major internet applications.”w25
“Yesterday’s college students learned their UNIX
expertise on Linux and FreeBSD. Today they’re working in IT departments,
and many of them are openly hostile to both Microsoft and Windows NT. As a
result, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other forms of UNIX are finding their way into
IT departments, both overtly and on the sly. “For
example, are you sure that’s an NT server you’re connecting to at work? IS
employees in many corporations have secretly installed UNIX servers that provide
native NT services. Why take such a risk? Linux and FreeBSD are free, as is
SAMBA, the software that provides NT services. So the IS department saves
money. And managers are unlikely to find out UNIX is behind the scenes because
fewer people will complain about server downtime.
“Fewer people will complain because the servers are
more stable than Windows NT. Linux, FreeBSD, and BSDI UNIX outperform
Windows NT by a wide margin on limited hardware, and under some circumstances
can perform as well or better than NT on the best hardware. Once behind in
scalability features, UNIX on Intel is catching up and may soon surpass NT in
the number of processors it can use, and how it uses them.” —Nicholas Petreley
(editor-in-chief of NC World and columnist for InfoWorld and NT
World Japan), “The new UNIX alters NT’s orbit: The re-emergence of UNIX
threatens to modify the future direction of NT”, NC World, April 1998
“Since these operating systems [Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
and OpenBSD] are free for use even in commercial environments, many ISPs run on
Linux or FreeBSD. Linux is the most popular and will run on a wide range
hardware: Sun, Intel, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, PowerMac, etc. Paul Krill’s recent
articles in InfoWorld (Linux picking up steam and Linux supporters rally around
freeware OS) focus on the ever increasing support of major vendors and future
plans for added functionality, i.e. support for Intel’s 64-bit Merced
processor. Currently, Linux is perhaps the fastest growing operating system on
the market. For more information, see Linux Resources or Red Hat Software.”
—“Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX”
“Meanwhile, Windows NT already loses on many more
competitive issues. Linux, FreeBSD, and other forms of Unix can be configured as a firewall right out of the box.
Windows NT cannot. Free Unix operating systems have built-in features like IP
masquerading. Windows NT doesn’t even do basic IP filtering without additional
software.” —Nicholas Petreley, “The new Unix alters NT’s orbit”, NC World
Businesses
and organizations with servers powered by Linux: 1st-Netcard.com, Deja
News, Etoys, free-dvd.org.lu (SuSE/Linux), Google.com, HomeStore.com,
LinuxSucks.org, MP3.com, Napster.com (Red Hat), NetBroadcaster.com, NetWare,
PayPal.com, PlanetofMusic.com, Rackspace, Real.com, Red Hat (Red Hat Secure
Linux), royal.gov.uk (the British Royal Family), Slashdot.org, Yahoo.com (also
uses FreeBSD)
ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/doug/
“bootp-DH2.x” free, patched CMU BOOTP-DD2.4.x server from Doug Hughes of
auburn.edu. Supports DHCP, even for Win95 clients. Adds the patches from the
Samba mailing list to support PCNFS and Win95 simultaneously. For SunOS 4.x,
Solaris 2.x, Linux, and NetBSD servers.