Preface
The Linux (open source) operating system has benefited from a foundation of less expensive hardware, stability, and technical developments. The most popular use of Linux is as a web server. Today, it is doing a host of corporate services such as email, firewall, proxy, gateway, database, applications, file server, printing, and more. Linux is now poised to become a competitive operating system on the higher-end servers of the enterprise world. Major Wall Street firms, movie production companies, and many other businesses are now turning to Linux for their enterprise server needs.
As more servers are being deployed, their performance becomes a critical factor in the efficiency of the overall system and affects all users. Although replacing ...
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