“When Linux distributions are available for free over the
Internet, and for $10-$100 from major companies such as Red Hat and
SuSE, why should an organization pay $599 for Caldera’s OpenLinux
Server 3.1.1?“Because you get what you pay for. OpenLinux is not just a basic
release of Linux with Apache server bundled in, it’s a seven-disk
set of CDs, with a highly secure version of Linux 2.4.2 that has
all of the unnecessary ports disabled.“Virtually every type of service and hardware support that might
be needed for an enterprise-class server is included: intrusion
detection with Tripwire, Logcheck and PortSentry, remote
administration via browser using the Webmin tool, Java SDK 1.3,
software and hardware RAID support, the Reiser journaling file
system, support for SMP and up to 64 GB RAM, the Apache Web server
with the Tomcat Java servlet engine, the PHP library, the
Mod_backhand load balancing module, and the Squid caching module,
as well as HTTPS, SSL, and PKI support. It also includes file and
print services for Linux and Windows, a POP and IMAP email server,
the IP-Chains firewall server, the WU-FTP server, the BIND8 DNS
server, a DHCP server, a PPP dial-in server, OpenLDAP, the INN news
server, and the Majordomo list server…”
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