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Linux

Linux is a free clone of the Unix operating system, created by Linus Torvalds as a student. It has millions of users, is developed by thousands of clever people across the world as an "open source" project, and is becoming increasingly sophisticated and easy to use — to the point that Microsoft is already worried that it might seriously erode sales of Windows.

Linux is powerful, stable, developing daily, and had networking ability designed into its core from day one — unlike Windows, which had networking cobbled on as an afterthought.

Linux is also the core of the World Wide Web — more than 90% of all web servers run Linux and the Apache web serving software.

While Linux is still primarily the domain of computer professionals and people with too much time on their hands, it is rapidly spreading to the wider community as it becomes easier to install, friendlier to use, and it supports more hardware devices.

Some hardware manufacturers are now installing Linux rather than Windows on their equipment because of what they consider to be Microsoft’s increasing costs, restrictions and insecurity. Recent versions of Linux (such as Lindows) now install automatically and have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) very similar to that of Windows XP.

If you want more information about using Linux as a network operating system, please read the Network Administrators Guide.

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