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Linux is growing in popularity. Some more notable benefits include:

  • A modern, very stable, multi-user, multi-tasking environment on your inexpensive PC hardware, at no (or almost no) monetary cost for the software. Linux is a rich and powerful platform, utilizing open-source software software add-ons, and will frequently perform well on less powerful hardware for comparable tasks.
  • Standard platform. Linux is a POSIX compliant version of UNIX. (But is NOT UNIX). Linux includes many of the UNIX standard tools and utilities.
  • Hardware compatibility. Linux is most popular on Intel-based PCs (price of the hardware), but it runs very well on numerous other hardware platforms, from toy-like to mainframes.
  • Advanced graphical user interface. Linux uses a standard, network-transparent X-windowing system with a "window manager" (typically KDE or GNOME).
  • Dozens of excellent, GPL open-source, general-interest desktop applications and thousands of free applets, tools, and smaller programs.
  • Hundreds of specialized applications built by researchers around the world (astronomy, information technology, chemistry, physics, engineering, linguistics, biology, etc.).
  • Excellent networking capability built into the operating system, now with support for wireless tools and security.
  • Connectivity to Microsoft, Novell, and Apple proprietary networking technologies.
  • Significantly fewer viruses.
  • Popular adoption in schools and collages, so more graduates than ever already have experience of the operating system and applications.

As you can see, with the availability of applications, interoperability with other platforms, stability and cost, Linux is particularly attractive to smaller businesses with lower IT budgets. If you are running, or need to run, web servers, databases, e-mail, DNS or DHCP servers you should at least consider Linux.

To make best use of the functionality of Linux, and assist with a cost/benefit analysis, talk to C3SC today.

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