Introducing Linux services
Everything you have learned up until now will easily apply to any workstation or desktop/laptop running Linux. We have delved into advanced networking subjects that are meant to ease your learning path to becoming a seasoned Linux system administrator. Now we will enter the server territory as a natural path to the cloud, which will be discussed in detail in the last four chapters of this book.
A Linux server, compared to a Linux workstation, is a system that serves content over a network. While doing so, a server provides its hardware and software resources to different clients that are accessing it. For example, every time you enter a website address into your browser, a server is accessed. That particular type of server is a web server. When you print over the network in your workplace, you access a print server, and when you read your email, you access a mail server. All these are specialized systems that run a specific piece of software (sometimes...
