“IC-2000 is one of several ISPs closely examining the expansion
into Linux support.”
“Schneider said that Ariel had developed RS-2000 boards with
support for Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris version of Unix, and
had looked at HP-UX as well, but learned that most smaller ISPs
were narrowing their OS options to either NT or Linux. Ariel
suggests to customers the types of minimal configurations their
system hardware should have. It also helps assemble software
modules such as Berkeley Internet Name Domain around the OS kernel,
to allow customers’ PC servers to not only perform traditional RAS
concentration duties, but also serve as domain-name server hosts
and perform Web hosting, backbone caching and similar
functions.”