Linux Magazine: The State of the Penguin

“Not so long ago, adopting Linux for any endeavor was a radical
idea. But for the radicals–early adopters and those asked to
implement bleeding-edge technologies during the Internet
boom–Linux was a perfectly reasonable solution. Paired with Samba,
Linux offered more robust file and print services than Windows.
Combined with the Apache web server, Linux powered web sites. The
latter mixed with Open Source tools such as Perl and MySQL
transformed the Internet into a World Wide Web of
possibilities…”

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