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Today, I will talk to you about why the server uses the linux system, which may not be well understood by many people. in order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

A server is a machine that provides services to computer software or to other programs or devices. There are many different types of servers such as Web servers, database servers, application servers, cloud computing servers, file servers, mail servers, DNS servers, and so on.

Over the years, the use of linux operating system has greatly increased, mainly in the server, Linux distribution is at the forefront of technology. Today, many big Internet companies have a large number of servers running on Linux-based operating systems. There are many reasons why Linux servers are more suitable than Window servers:

1. Free and open source

The Linux operating system is completely free and can be used as open source software, which allows you to easily view the code available to create the Linux kernel, modify the code to fix any errors, and so on. It provides many programming interfaces, you can even develop your own programs and add them to the Linux operating system, basically, Linux gives you complete control of the machine, as long as you are good enough, you can build and customize the server in your own way. This is not possible on windows.

2. Stability

The Linux system is known for its ultimate stability. On windows, we see a system crash or jam, but on linux, this is highly unlikely, and linux systems can handle multiple tasks at the same time, and in a Windows configuration, changing the configuration usually requires a restart. But in linux, there is no need to restart, configuration changes can be done while the system is running, and do not affect irrelevant services, similarly, windows servers are often defragmented, but there is no need to do so at all on linux.

3. Security

In terms of security, Linux is obviously more secure than Windows, because Linux is mainly based on the UNIX operating system, which was originally developed from a multi-user operating system. Only administrators or root users have administrative rights, and secondly, Linux will also have very low frequency of viruses and malware attacks. Many viruses are aimed at windows, but there are far fewer viruses against linux than windows. For example, the previous Eternal Blue virus did not affect linux. Second, the user base who play linux is basically computer personnel, coupled with the large linux community, generally found vulnerabilities, will soon be submitted to the linux open source community.

4. Low cost

Linux is free, and if you want to install Windows on one of the servers, you will have to pay an activation fee. That means you need to spend more money.

5. Easy to operate

For ordinary people, windows operation is faster, but for computer professionals, linux operation is much faster than windows. A few commands can perform a lot of operations. For example, a Daniel has published a book called "working completely with Linux", which has been praised by many people.

Although linux is good, it is not suitable for all companies. If companies use software such as ASP,ASP.NET,MSSQL,MS ACCESS or Visual Basic development tools, they need to use Windows Server.

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