Linux operating system
What is an operating system?Linux is a type of operating system, and is offered to clients by hosting providers to use with their dedicated servers. It is one of the main operating systems available, along with Windows. An operating system is the program that manages all the other programs in a computer once it has been initially loaded.
What is Linux hosting?
Linux is supported by corporations such as Dell, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Novell and Red Hat, and is mainly known for its use in servers. A wide variety of computer hardware uses the Linux operating system, and these include supercomputers, desktop computers, [3] video game systems such as PlayStation 2 and 3, and embedded devices such as mobile phones and routers.
The source code for Linux hosting is freely available, as it is an open operating system. Linux is mainly developed by volunteers all over the world, and now the IT industry has started contributing as well. Unix is another type of operating system and it is essentially the same as Linux, since Linux is a Unix derivative.
Technologies such as CGI, Perl, C++, MySQL and PHP are used with Linux hosting. There are thousands of applications that can run a Linux operating system, and it runs on widely differing hardware platforms.
What standard software is installed?
| Software | Description |
| MySQL | A comprehensive, open-source database server |
| PHP | HTML embedded scripted language used to create dynamic web pages |
| CGI (Perl) | A useful interface that allows web servers to perform data functions and interact with users |
| Apache | A secure and efficient web server over which you have complete control |
| A mail server for fast, effective e-mail | |
| Wu-FTPD | A popular FTP server facillitating rapid file transfer |
Benefits of using Linux
- As no license is needed, Linux tends to be much cheaper than Windows.
- Open source software is available for free.
- There is a community spirit with fixing problems.
- Linux tends to be more stable than Linux.
- There is a sense of security when using Linux.
- Linux is harder to update than Windows.
- There is no control panel with Linux, which makes it more difficult to use than Windows.
- Linux is not as familiar as Windows, so a new system needs to be learnt.
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