Deptartment of Informatics / Göteborgs University

Educational/Goverment, department of Informatics at the second largest university in Sweden (aprox 30000 students at the university, 800 at our department).

Our main business use of Linux is as a web-server platform, which works greats. Many of our courses have started to use Linux as a computer lab enviroment.

We use it as File/mail/print-server to a minor extent today, but it is under evaluation if we should migrate more of our main server park to linux.

Deptartment of Informatics / Göteborgs University uses Linux for the following functions:

• Network file server:

  • Samba server for a network of PCs.
  • File server for other types of clients.

• Print server:

  • Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
  • Print spooler using samba (PC clients)

• Desktop environment:

  • KDE.

• HTTP servers

  • Apache.

• Databases

  • PostgreSQL.
  • Oracle.

• Internet client software - WWW

  • NetScape Navigator.

• Internet client software - mail

  • Pine.
  • Netscape's mail client.
  • Other mail clients.

• Network management:

  • Internet or WAN router.
  • NIS server.

• Electronic mail server:

  • POP-3 server.
  • IMAP server.
  • SMTP server (sendmail, others).
  • SMTP mail router.

• Network services provided to local users:

  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
  • News server or cache.
  • Accepts telnet connections.
  • Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
  • Services finger requests.
  • Other services.

• Software development tools:

  • C and/or C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.

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