What's Linux now ? (2)

  • over 20 million users world wide (example: ~50% of all the webservers running in 2001)

    graph:

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains

    source: http://www.netcraft.com/survey/)

  • at home on Intel/AMD, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC, ARM, MC680x0, MIPS and many more (it was the first OS to run on the new Intel Itanium 64 bit chip)
  • it's free and Open Source software
  • available in many different Distributions (packages that contain OS, documentation and many various applications)
  • Powerful support for network and Information Technology tools