Bill Hance's Web Site -- computers -- Linux

Red Hat Linux Certifications:
begin at RHCT Red Hat Certified Technician
progress to RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer
finish with RHCA Red Hat Certified Architect

Linux Links:
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.novell.com/
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

Linux is used to run SuperComputers
Click here for the current Top 500 list
as of June 2004, a Linux cluster was ranked #2 in the world

PLUG
Philadelphia Linux Users Group
http://www.phillylinux.org/

Switched to LINUX:

The Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Foundation, and the searchable Immigration Records available at
http://www.EllisIsland.org/ (70 million monthly visitors) runs on Red Hat Linux and an Oracle database.

The Orbitz travel site www.orbitz.com runs on hundreds of Red Hat Linux servers.

as of March 2004:

IBM Corp., with more than 300,000 desktops, is converting them all to Linux by the end of 2005.

FedEx Corp. runs their entire infrastructure on Linux.

Amazon.com, Computer Associates, Disney, DreamWorks, L.L. Bean, Pixar, Merrill Lynch,
Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney rely on Linux for day-to-day operations.

Shaw's Supermarkets and Supervalu are 100% Linux.

The NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmosphere Administration) tracks hurricanes using Linux systems.

The Israeli government has stopped buying Microsoft Office and
is working with IBM and Sun Microsystems to use OpenOffice.

Audi (a unit of Volkswagen AG) uses a Linux-on-Intel cluster to simulate parts,
design factory tooling, and crash simulation.

Sony HDTV, Linksys wireless routers, and TiVO all run on embedded Linux.
Embedded Linux is the #2 embedded OS, after Wind River's VxWorks.

Massachusetts, Rhode Island and several other states have launched a software repository designed
to let government agencies download and use open-source software. It consists of Debian Linux,
MySQL database, Z Object Publishing Environment application server, Apache Web server, and
OpenLDAP authentication.

NASA's Ames Research Center deploys a 512-processor Silicon Graphics Linux
system for ocean-modeling research. It has a peak performance of 3 teraflops.

Quantas Airways, Ltd. has signed a 10-year, $450 million contract with IBM Global
Services. Most of Quantas' 450 Unix servers will be replaced by Linux servers.

June 2004:

McDonald's Germany is deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

July 2004:

GOOGLE runs their entire infrastructure on Linux.
During peak hours, google responds to 2,000 queries a second,
relying on a network of more than 10,000 computers running Linux.

Linux-related spending is predicted to reach $1.8 billion
by 2007, compared with the $393 million spent by the end of 2003.
-InformationWeek, August 30, 2004

Sales of servers using Linux are expected to grow
faster that the overall market through at least 2008.
-IDC, March 2005

Michael Dell (Dell Computer) has invested
$99.5 million in Red Hat Software Inc.
-eWEEK, May 16, 2005

September 2005:

UPS Inc, UPS.com, & UPS's Oracle database run on Red Hat Linux
E*Trade Financial runs Linux on IBM servers.
Yahoo Inc runs Linux/Apache/MySQL
Cendant Corp uses Red Hat linux, APache & Tomcat
Walt Disney Co. runs Linux

November 2005:
JP Morgan Chase & Co spend $8 billion per year on technology,
and are widely deploying Red Hat Linux.

Linux vs. Microsoft

cheap or free vs. several hundred dollars, minimum
(If you buy a new PC, pre-loaded with Windows, you are paying $$$ for it.)

updates do not require rebooting vs. any update or bug patch requires a reboot

a clone of , or based on UNIX vs. based on DOS

runs fine on older, weak PCs vs. each new version is designed to require a hardware upgrade *

Oracle 10G runs on Linux vs. not on Windows

immune to nearly every virus and worm vs. they are written specifically to attack Microsoft products

Apache Web Server runs on Linux vs. not on Windows

* "Most of the opportunity here is not about selling a retail copy of Windows XP
onto an old piece of hardware; it's really about helping people understand the
benefits of moving onto a new PC or of adding a new PC to their lives."
-Tim Button, Microsoft Corporate VP for the Windows Client

Comparing the Costs, Linux vs. Microsoft
licensing 500 desktops for 2 years, including upgrades:
Microsoft: Windows and Office = $636.83
Red Hat: Red Hat Desktop and OpenOffice 1.1 = $140.00
Sun: Java Desktop System and StarOffice 7 = $150.00
-eWeek Magazine, June 21, 2004

3 year TCO (total cost of ownership) to deploy a server running:
Linux = $74,475.
Windows = $190,662.
Solaris = $534,020.
-2004, Robert Frances Group

Average systems administrator salary:
Unix = $96,163.
Windows = 67,355.

"tight proprietary software integration is detrimental to security"
-CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

“It's not my goal to make my company as big as Microsoft,
it's my goal to make Microsoft as big as my company.”
Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat Linux

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commonly used:
Samba
NFS
OpenLDAP
CUPS

These Linux programs are used for burning CD-Rs and such....

For CD mastering from large wave files (from dat), you can't beat cdrdao/gcdmaster:

http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/gcdmaster/

For extraction, I use cdparanoia if I want individual tracks (like for shn), or cdrdao for bin/toc ripping.

Cdparanoia:

http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

For a soundforge/cooledit type editing package, there's cinelerra.
It's geared more for mpeg movie editing/mastering, but the audio tools and filters are second to none:

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

To use a Sony DDS tape drive compatible with
Audio DAT tapes, see this site: http://kickme.to/sdt9000