Preface
Having started off as a hacker’s exploratory journey to create a free UNIX-like operating system (OS), today Linux represents a viable competitive solution in use worldwide. Being freely redistributed and with all the strengths of UNIX-based operating systems, it is everywhere. People use it to deploy intensive industry solutions such as file servers, Web servers, e-mail, and middleware support. And yet, the operating system is flexible enough to be run as a desktop client on personal computers (PCs). Although the journey to success has been bumpy, it was worth it.
</feature>Linux has always been popular within the university setting, but it has really taken off within the corporate world only in the past few years, ...
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