How Linux is used in Business - Linux for Business - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Alexandru
I don't think you can compare Linux with Cisco. This is like comparing PS4 with a TV. They are both very different systems of components. I'm sure you are aware of this because you didn't mention Android :) Cisco usually have their OS that knows how to communicate with the network hardware. Recently with NX-OS for example, that OS is actually LINUX. But that doesn't really mean NX-OS is good for networking, it's just good to run software that deals with network protocols. Much much better than the crappy IOS .. Now there are more impressive projects based on Linux that can deal with networking ASICs similarly with NX-OS that are based on Linux, like Facebook (FBOSS) or Cumulus.
Now there are some cool projects available for Linux and FreeBSD like Netmap (VALE) and open sourced project by Cisco called VPP who can take better advantage of a PC architecture for networking. But PCs are not for networking most of the time .. not the kind of networking where you see Cisco and Juniper and others doing heavy loading.
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I don't think you can compare Linux with Cisco. This is like comparing PS4 with a TV. They are both very different systems of components. I'm sure you are aware of this because you didn't mention Android :) Cisco usually have their OS that knows how to communicate with the network hardware. Recently with NX-OS for example, that OS is actually LINUX. But that doesn't really mean NX-OS is good for networking, it's just good to run software that deals with network protocols. Much much better than the crappy IOS .. Now there are more impressive projects based on Linux that can deal with networking ASICs similarly with NX-OS that are based on Linux, like Facebook (FBOSS) or Cumulus.
Now there are some cool projects available for Linux and FreeBSD like Netmap (VALE) and open sourced project by Cisco called VPP who can take better advantage of a PC architecture for networking. But PCs are not for networking most of the time .. not the kind of networking where you see Cisco and Juniper and others doing heavy loading.
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Andy
Thanks for the excellent and informative (as usual) video.
The company I work for use Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu) on all desktops. The stack used is IntelliJ IDEA (for Java development), Eclipse (for C++ development), Android Studio (for Android development), MySQL Workbench (for database access), gitolite (for the company's internal source code management). We use Thunderbird as a mail client. We have arrays of Android handsets attached to Linux machines running OpenSTF (Smartphone Test Farm), a Linux box used as the corporate VPN gateway, little NUC units running Linux for video conferencing between offices, RocketChat running on a Linux box (etc etc etc)... Everything we do is on Linux, and we tend to steer clear of just shoving everything on -the cloud- (i.e. we don't buy in to -cloud- offerings such as Amazon, Google etc...).
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Thanks for the excellent and informative (as usual) video.
The company I work for use Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu) on all desktops. The stack used is IntelliJ IDEA (for Java development), Eclipse (for C++ development), Android Studio (for Android development), MySQL Workbench (for database access), gitolite (for the company's internal source code management). We use Thunderbird as a mail client. We have arrays of Android handsets attached to Linux machines running OpenSTF (Smartphone Test Farm), a Linux box used as the corporate VPN gateway, little NUC units running Linux for video conferencing between offices, RocketChat running on a Linux box (etc etc etc)... Everything we do is on Linux, and we tend to steer clear of just shoving everything on -the cloud- (i.e. we don't buy in to -cloud- offerings such as Amazon, Google etc...).
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Micha-
Yeah, details would be interesting. This video is filled with so new, unknown names, terms, usage ideas that for an average person it's confusing so you lost me after a few minutes.
It's sad that Linux is rarely used as a desktop in business but it has a good reason. Usually, it lacks of software that is needed for the given business. So, for example, my work computer has to be windows based because fiscal printer drivers don't exist on Linux plus there are specialized applications for windows only and they don't work in wine. Servers... that.. is a vast and intimidating topic. I just get around with Ubuntu server and that is enough for me. Server for web hosting is doable. Email server? Uh, too confusing as many other specialized server usages. Maybe I'll check NextCloud as snap because that should be easy.
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Yeah, details would be interesting. This video is filled with so new, unknown names, terms, usage ideas that for an average person it's confusing so you lost me after a few minutes.
It's sad that Linux is rarely used as a desktop in business but it has a good reason. Usually, it lacks of software that is needed for the given business. So, for example, my work computer has to be windows based because fiscal printer drivers don't exist on Linux plus there are specialized applications for windows only and they don't work in wine. Servers... that.. is a vast and intimidating topic. I just get around with Ubuntu server and that is enough for me. Server for web hosting is doable. Email server? Uh, too confusing as many other specialized server usages. Maybe I'll check NextCloud as snap because that should be easy.
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Theodoros
Interesting and informative video, as always.
Here's something about the second point.
I have a personal website, just as a hobby, that's hosted on an old Pentium D computer which was before just sitting there and collecting dust. Initially, I had the website hosted on Windows. However, I switched to Linux soon after, and it became much easier to manage my website. The most noticeable difference was that the Apache server took less than 10 seconds to load up in Linux, compared to almost a minute that it took on Windows.
Linux definitely is the better choice for this kind of stuff.
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Interesting and informative video, as always.
Here's something about the second point.
I have a personal website, just as a hobby, that's hosted on an old Pentium D computer which was before just sitting there and collecting dust. Initially, I had the website hosted on Windows. However, I switched to Linux soon after, and it became much easier to manage my website. The most noticeable difference was that the Apache server took less than 10 seconds to load up in Linux, compared to almost a minute that it took on Windows.
Linux definitely is the better choice for this kind of stuff.
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Todd
In the manufacturing facility I work in our in-house documentation/traceability system runs on a Linux server along with all workstations that don't require Windows for proprietary software. Most everything is web or network based so the client doesn't matter as much anymore.
Linux's price and security benefits easily offset the learning curve, it's not like when I started in the late 90's where you were compiling drivers from source and building your own kernels to get it to run properly. Today's Linux for the most part is pick the release-gui that you like best and go.
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In the manufacturing facility I work in our in-house documentation/traceability system runs on a Linux server along with all workstations that don't require Windows for proprietary software. Most everything is web or network based so the client doesn't matter as much anymore.
Linux's price and security benefits easily offset the learning curve, it's not like when I started in the late 90's where you were compiling drivers from source and building your own kernels to get it to run properly. Today's Linux for the most part is pick the release-gui that you like best and go.
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trythat
Nice video, I use a PC Engines apu2c4 system for my pfsense router - very nice.
In the last year I've gone completely over to Linux from Windows, I just hated 10 so much, my favourite was Windows 2000 :)
Please don't take this the wrong way, but can you please check some of your pronunciations? I'm referring to NAS and FreeNAS. or that's what I think you're talking about, but it sounds like you said 'Noz' to my UK hearing :) Every video I watched, it is pronounce as N-ASS, even here in the UK we say N-ass. Apart from that keep churning out the video's.
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Nice video, I use a PC Engines apu2c4 system for my pfsense router - very nice.
In the last year I've gone completely over to Linux from Windows, I just hated 10 so much, my favourite was Windows 2000 :)
Please don't take this the wrong way, but can you please check some of your pronunciations? I'm referring to NAS and FreeNAS. or that's what I think you're talking about, but it sounds like you said 'Noz' to my UK hearing :) Every video I watched, it is pronounce as N-ASS, even here in the UK we say N-ass. Apart from that keep churning out the video's.
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Croft
pfSsense is FreeBSD... Just saying. :) But yeah, we run multiple Linux servers to run services like Rocketchat, and a ticketing app, and so on. The licensing is great. I mean - spin up a machine, set up what you want to do and move on with life. Microsoft? Umm not so much. However, let me toss out a suggestion for people who are looking for options for virtualization and don't want to do ESXi (which is still superior to most) - Joyent SmartOS. Built on top of OpenSolaris originally, and it's pretty amazing stuff.
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pfSsense is FreeBSD... Just saying. :) But yeah, we run multiple Linux servers to run services like Rocketchat, and a ticketing app, and so on. The licensing is great. I mean - spin up a machine, set up what you want to do and move on with life. Microsoft? Umm not so much. However, let me toss out a suggestion for people who are looking for options for virtualization and don't want to do ESXi (which is still superior to most) - Joyent SmartOS. Built on top of OpenSolaris originally, and it's pretty amazing stuff.
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pianokeyjoe
telephony and intercoms perked my ears right up! I have invested alot in intercom parts and did not know Linux could make all this usable. Pfsense i heard of but never really explored it. I will now.. FreeNAS is more FreeBSD but yeah, I will try that for file shares as I no longer want to use Windows for anything having to do with my small business. I started with a POS system that I bought in ebay. My biggest question is LINUX based CCTV DVR? What software is out there for free in Linux for CCTV?
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telephony and intercoms perked my ears right up! I have invested alot in intercom parts and did not know Linux could make all this usable. Pfsense i heard of but never really explored it. I will now.. FreeNAS is more FreeBSD but yeah, I will try that for file shares as I no longer want to use Windows for anything having to do with my small business. I started with a POS system that I bought in ebay. My biggest question is LINUX based CCTV DVR? What software is out there for free in Linux for CCTV?
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Andreas
Great video! You said, VMWare ESXi is based on BSD, but it actually uses a Linux kernel.
In the future, Linux will dominate businesses even more, thanks to containerization of applications (docker/kubernetes et.al.). VMWare offers their own kubernetes cluster solution named Pivotal Container Services. The reason for IBM to buy RedHat is their OpenShift/OpenStack products.
In my company, we use OpenShift to host our product for our customers, and it is fantastic.
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Great video! You said, VMWare ESXi is based on BSD, but it actually uses a Linux kernel.
In the future, Linux will dominate businesses even more, thanks to containerization of applications (docker/kubernetes et.al.). VMWare offers their own kubernetes cluster solution named Pivotal Container Services. The reason for IBM to buy RedHat is their OpenShift/OpenStack products.
In my company, we use OpenShift to host our product for our customers, and it is fantastic.
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NullByte4532
Networking on linux is way better than on windows, but for my routing i personally prefer pfsense, which if i remember correctly is based on freebsd. Idk, maybe i just need to learn iptables, but when i was googling how to do in linux some of the stuff i do in pfsense, i didnt really find a working solution and had to resort to a hack that works most of the time.
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Networking on linux is way better than on windows, but for my routing i personally prefer pfsense, which if i remember correctly is based on freebsd. Idk, maybe i just need to learn iptables, but when i was googling how to do in linux some of the stuff i do in pfsense, i didnt really find a working solution and had to resort to a hack that works most of the time.
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