Linux server administration

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[[Linux server administration]] is one of the [[Topic:server administration|server administration]] [[learning project]]s. Linux server administration studies the use of the [[w:Linux|Linux]] [[Topic:Operating Systems|operating system]] as an all purpose server.

==What is Linux?==
'''[[Operating Systems/GNU-Linux|Linux]]''', or GNU/Linux, refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software as well as user generated software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely. ''See the [[w:Linux|Linux]] article at Wikipedia for much more information''

==Choosing a distribution==
[[Image:Wikimedia-servers-2006-05-09.svg|thumb|right|200px|The [[m:Wikimedia servers|Wikimedia server farm]]]]
[[w:Linux distribution|Linux distribution]]s are available in a very wide variety. Choosing only one is a difficult task. Popular examples that have been around for a while are [[w:Red Hat Enterprise Linux|Red Hat]], [[w:Debian|Debian]], [[w:Slackware|Slackware]] and [[w:Mandriva Linux|Mandrake]] (now called Mandriva Linux). Others like [[w:Knoppix|Knoppix]], [[w:Ubuntu (Linux distribution)|Ubuntu]] and [[w:SUSE Linux|SUSE]] are also popular choices, but there are many, many others. ''See the [[w:Comparison of Linux distributions|Comparison of Linux distributions]] at Wikipedia for an exhaustive list''

NOTE: Wikiversity runs from [[m:Wikimedia servers|Wikimedia servers]] using several distributions including Red Hat, [[w:Ubuntu|Ubuntu]] and the [[w:Fedora core|Fedora core]].

==See also==
* [[Installing Linux]]

[[Category:Server administration]]
[[Category:Operating Systems]]

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