Deptartment of Informatics / Göteborgs University



Company name:	Deptartment of Informatics / Göteborgs University
Contact:	Niklas Paulsson
Phone:	+46-31-7732745
Fax:	+46-31-7734754
E-Mail:	niklas@inforamtik.gu.se
WWW URL:	http://www.informatik.gu.se

Educational/Goverment, department of Informatics at the second largest university in Sweden (aprox 30000 students at the university, 800 at our department).

Our main business use of Linux is as a web-server platform, which works greats. Many of our courses have started to use Linux as a computer lab enviroment.

We use it as File/mail/print-server to a minor extent today, but it is under evaluation if we should migrate more of our main server park to linux.



Deptartment of Informatics / Göteborgs University uses Linux for the following functions:

• Network file server:
  • Samba server for a network of PCs.
  • File server for other types of clients.
• Print server:
  • Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
  • Print spooler using samba (PC clients)
• Desktop environment:
  • KDE.
• HTTP servers
  • Apache.
• Databases
  • PostgreSQL.
  • Oracle.
• Internet client software - WWW
  • NetScape Navigator.
• Internet client software - mail
  • Pine.
  • Netscape's mail client.
  • Other mail clients.
• Network management:
  • Internet or WAN router.
  • NIS server.
• Electronic mail server:
  • POP-3 server.
  • IMAP server.
  • SMTP server (sendmail, others).
  • SMTP mail router.
• Network services provided to local users:
  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
  • News server or cache.
  • Accepts telnet connections.
  • Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
  • Services finger requests.
  • Other services.
• Software development tools:
  • C and/or C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.

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