Who's using Debian?
1. Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
2. educational
3. http://www.ens-cachan.fr
4.
Debian distribution is the largest distribution used in this "such as university school", including more than 20 laboratories. The best and the older use of Debian is network one: routers (under ATM and Gigabit Ethernet technologies, with dynamic routing inside and outside campus), firewall (stateful filtering on each router), VPN gateway (based on OpenVPN project). Debian is also used in all DSI (Direction of Information Systems) Linux servers, holding databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), network services (DNS, proxy, Ldap, News, etc...) and workstations of free access rooms. Finally, all current Debian distributions have been installed on the meso-calculator (Nec TX7 with 32 Itanium2 processors) without touching to the old but only supported RedHat distribution.
The ENS-Cachan also holds a FTP official mirror of Debian distribution for years. The students organize install parties with Debian installations.
The choice of Debian distribution is historical (the most used Linux distribution of system administrators), philosophical (a dependence free about commercial contraints) and pragmatical (Debian is easier to administrate than to install ;-)).
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