Today Linux has joined the desktop market. Linux developers
concentrated on networking and services in the beginning, and office
applications have been the last barrier to be taken down. We don't like to
admit that Microsoft is ruling this market, so plenty of alternatives have been
started over the last couple of years to make Linux an acceptable choice as a
workstation, providing an easy user interface and MS compatible office applications
like word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the like.
On the server side, Linux is well-known as a stable and reliable
platform, providing database and trading services for companies like Amazon,
the well-known online bookshop, US Post Office, the German army and many
others. Especially Internet providers and Internet service providers have grown
fond of Linux as firewall, proxy- and web server, and you will find a Linux box
within reach of every UNIX system administrator who appreciates a comfortable
management station. Clusters of Linux machines are used in the creation of
movies such as "Titanic", "Shrek" and others. In post
offices, they are the nerve centers that route mail and in large search engine,
clusters are used to perform internet searches. These are only a few of the thousands
of heavy-duty jobs that Linux is performing day-to-day across the world.
It is also worth to note that modern Linux not only runs on
workstations, mid- and high-end servers, but also on "gadgets" like
PDA's, mobiles, a shipload of embedded applications and even on experimental Wristwatches.
This makes Linux the only operating system in the world covering such a wide
range of Hardware.
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