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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