6 Practical And Real World Applications Of Linux
1. Web Servers The biggest real-world use of Linux is on servers, especially web servers. There are several reasons for Linux dominating the web server market. One reason is that Linux is dirt-cheap to install. Back in the “dot-com” era of the ’90s, many startups discovered Linux for this reason. Unix systems were already popular for servers, but were very expensive and ran on specialized hardware. You could easily download Linux for free and it ran on x86 processors, using the free Apache HTTP server....