A lot of our desktop boot using Linux and then load up a Windows VM. Like a dumb terminal essentially. All the servers are running linux with a couple of VM windows servers too. Linux is essential to work in our IT department even though, if you didn't know any better, you'd think all we used was windows.
Linux in the work place
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We use Linux extensively. Web / application / mail / file / authentication servers. As routers/internet gateways and firewalls.
About 50% of the company use it on the desktop too, mainly the tech side as you'd expect. The rest use a mixture of Macs and Windows and even the Windows machines used to log onto a domain managed by a samba server.
About 50% of the company use it on the desktop too, mainly the tech side as you'd expect. The rest use a mixture of Macs and Windows and even the Windows machines used to log onto a domain managed by a samba server.
"According to Canonical's infographic, there were over 60 million Ubuntu images launched by Docker users, 14 million Vagrant images of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from HashiCorp, 20 million launches of Ubuntu instances during 2015 in public and private clouds, as well as bare metal, and 2 million new Ubuntu Cloud instances launched in November 2015.
Ubuntu is used on the International space station, on the servers of popular online services like Netflix, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Dropbox, PayPal, Wikipedia, and Instagram, in Google, Tesla, George Hotz, and Uber cars. It is also employed at Bloomberg, Weta Digital and Walmart, at the Brigham Young University to control the Mars Rover, and it is even behind the largest supercomputer in the world."
http://news.softpedia.com/news/infographic-ubuntu-linux-is-everywhere-502722.shtml
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Not just servers.
Arista switches run Linux, so do many SDN and SDS solutions.
Arista switches run Linux, so do many SDN and SDS solutions.
Everywhere except end users, generally speaking.