Linux

	Introduction to Linux
	What is Linux
	Open Source and Business
	Administering Red Hat Linux
	Differences between Linux and Windows
	Learn Linux
	Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

Many businesses struggle to balance the need for systems that support mission-critical application that pressures to Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for IT infrastructure. AVIT enables your businesses to get both-high availability on Linux.

As we know, every enterprise today is looking to deliver additional value, Maximize the return on existing IT assets, Reduced Operational Costs, and invest in Cost-Effective, Innovative Solutions in positioning its business for the future. To be a market leader, an organization must realize faster time to application value when investing in infrastructure.

Linux provides a high-performance, reliable, open-source solution, provides greater flexibility, control and faster, cheaper application development, and it is low cost makes it the platform of choice for companies that are targeting the new Web economy.

Linux is software that ensures continuous availability by maintaining system. AVIT maintains the availability of clustered Linux systems by monitoring system and application health. We also provides the application to fall over to other servers in the cluster if the system goes down, minimizing the risk of failure and allows Linux system to meet stringent requirements of mission-critical operations

Linux also scale through cluster-base computing, where multiple individual computers are linked together to form a larger, more powerful computer or High-Performance Computing or storage complex. Thus, even if a single computer has to be shut down and restarted, it does not disable the entire cluster.

We made Linux a Top Priority across our entire business to bring real solutions to customers in all industries.

What is Linux?

As we may already know, Linux is a freely distributed implementation of an UNIX-like kernel, the low level core of an operating system. Because Linux takes the UNIX system as its inspiration, Linux and UNIX programs are very similar. In fact, almost all programs written for UNIX can be compiled and run under Linux.

Many commercial applications sold for commercial version of UNIX can run unchanged in binary form on Linux systems.

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, with the help of UNIX programmers from across the Internet. It began as a hobby inspired by Andy Tanenbaum’s Minux, a small UNIX systems, but has grow to become a complete UNIX system in its own right. One of the most important decisions by Linus Torvalds to make all the code freely distributable to improve rapidly. This is how the concept of the “Distribution” was created.

Linux at the movies embedded brings graphics and animations to life!

World’s best, the experienced graphics artists at
- Digital Domain, have generated visual effects for such films as Starship Troopers 2, Lord of the Ring - Fellowship of The Ring, Apollo 13 and Dante’s Peak.
- DreamWorks has generated visual effects for Sinbad, Shrek, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- ILM generated visual effects for Star War Episode 2, and
- Rhythm and Hues has done it in Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets.

But when director James Cameron selected Domain to conjure visual effects for Titanic, the artists faced a task of unprecedented size and complexity, with concerns to obtain enormous computing power at the lowest cost.

Desktop Environment

The desktop is the most personalized feature of your computer. The way that icons, menus, panels, and background are arranged and displayed should make it pleasant for you to do your work with the Red Hat Linux; an incredible control over how your desktop behaves is arranged.

Standardize how to use Red Hat Linux, KDE and GNOME (Graphics Design Environment) recent update to R3.2 and 2.5 respectively. You also can manage files with Konqueror File Manager- a network ready tools for managing file. Konqueror can interface with Mozilla (is an open-source Web browser from Netscape source code), Internet Explorer or another Web-browser.

Application

Hundred of applications are available to be run using Red Hat Linux. Red Hat developed the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), using tools developed for RPM, rpm commands, and you can easily install, remove, and perform on Linux RPM packages.

Powerful open-source publishing tools such as OpenOffice are becoming competitive with commercial office suites. OpenOffice consists of:

OpenOffice Writer-A word processing application you can work with documents in file format has a full set of features for using templates, fonts including images and effects and doing tables of contents.

OpenOffice Calc-A spreadsheet application that creates charts, set up database ranges and use data in different points of view.

OpenOffice Draw-A drawing application that lets you add, edit and align objects; incorporate with textures and colors with vector graphics, AUTOCAD, and a variety of other file formats into your drawing.

OpenOffice Math-A calculation program that lets create mathematical formulas.

OpenOffice Impress –A presentation application that includes several types of slide effects. Using Impress, you can create and save presentations.