Well I thought this thread was going to be boring... But there have been some interesting commments.
Here's the special stuff I use linux for (in addition to all the standard stuff mentioned already) 1) Security camera - a little USB webcam positioned to look over the student's bags in the school library. It takes a picture once every 2.2 seconds and saves it to my workstation via NFS. 2) Firewall - ancient Ppro 166 with 48 Mb ram load balancing over two paradise cable modems, portforwarding, and of course blocking all the bad stuff. 3) Thin clients - I use PXEs http://pxes.sourceforge.net/ to boot about 50 P133 and P166 machines, so they can access a MS Terminal Swerver. This distro also pretends to be a jetdirect, so I can attach parallel printers (haven't tried USB) to the thin client, and it prints transparently to the users. 4) Webserver - We were recently donated a sparcserver 20 (running solaris 9) and an alphaserver (with no OS) I am still playing with the SS20, but the alpha server is up running debian, and serving all web pages. It has the CPU power of about a 486, and dates from 1994. (mind yoy - it probably cost about $50k back then) That's all the cool stuff.
