[GUFSC] Who's using Debian?
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<h1>Who's using Debian?</h1>
<p>
Included here are descriptions of some major organizations which
have deployed Debian, and have chosen to submit a short description of
how they use Debian, and why they chose it. If you would like to be
included in this list, please
<a href="#submissions">follow these instructions</a>.
</p>
<h2>Educational Institutions</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#MIT">Massachusets Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab</a></li>
<li><a href="#Doshisha">Doshisha University</a></li>
<li><a href="#MerloStation">Merlo Station Science and Technology High School, Beaverton, Oregon</a></li>
<li><a href="#INSIA">INSIA</a></li>
<li><a href="#UNSW-CS">School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Australia</a></li>
<li><a href="#UNSW-BIO">Bioinformatics, University of New South Wales, Australia</a></li>
<li><a href="#UNSW-COMPSOC">COMPSOC, Computing Students Society, UNSW</a></li>
<li><a href="#UNI">National Technical University (UNI - Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería)</a></li>
<li><a href="#Republica">Facultad de Ciencias and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República</a></li>
<li><a href="#UOA-IARC">University of Alaska Fairbanks, IARC -- Frontier Program</a></li>
<li><a href="#Valencia">University of Valencia, Robotics Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="#Parana">Departamento de Informática -- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="#WorcesterPolytechnic">Worcester Polytechnic Institute Game Development Club</a></li>
<li><a href="#Queens">Department of Economics, Queen's University</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Nonprofit Organizations</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#CIPSGA">CIPSGA - Comite de Incentivo a Produção do Software GNU e Alternativo</a></li>
<li><a href="#hispalinux">Spanish Linux User Group</a></li>
<li><a href="#carnet">CARNet, Croatian Academic and Research Network</a></li>
<li><a href="#bayour.com">Bayour.com</a></li>
<li><a href="#tuxfamily">TuxFamily</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Commercial</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#thawte.com">Thawte.com</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware.no">Hardware.no</a></li>
<li><a href="#Catalyst">Catalyst</a></li>
<li><a href="#euronetics">EuroNetics Operation KB</a></li>
<li><a href="#Alternex">Alternex S/A</a></li>
<li><a href="#grundig">Grundig AG</a></li>
<li><a href="#intellicare">Intellicare GmbH</a></li>
<li><a href="#heureka">HeureKA -- Der EDV Dienstleister</a></li>
<li><a href="#cistron">Cistron</a></li>
<li><a href="#artselect">Artselect.com</a></li>
<li><a href="#CharlesRetina">Charles Retina Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="#CBD">Wellington New Zealand CBD Telephone exchange</a></li>
<li><a href="#UnitedDrug">United Drug plc</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Government Organizations</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#IMAPMC">IMA / PMC: City Hall of Campinas city, Sao Paulo, Brazil</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="MIT"></a><a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu">Massachusets Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab</a></h3>
<p>
In the MIT AI lab the "Officially Supported" flavor of GNU/Linux
is Debian. There are approximately 100 user workstations running
Debian, as well as a small but growing OpenMosix Cluster serving
compute cycles (<a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/sysadmin/cluster.html">http://www.ai.mit.edu/sysadmin/cluster.html</a>).
</p>
<p>
The switch to Debian was made official in September 2001. The largest
reason being the ease of package management, which users love (users
here get that kind of freedom) and also allows the sysadmins to
semi-automate security updates (we like to check the updates on a test
system before forcing them on the users, but to date there's been no
problems).
</p>
<h3><a name="thawte.com"></a><a href="http://www.thawte.com">Thawte.com</a></h3>
<p>
We run our web infrastructure on Debian woody - 12 servers including DR
site. We also run 10 developer workstations on Debian. We've used Debian
since 1997 or earlier (bo -> hamm -> slink -> potato -> woody...)
</p>
<p>
Reasons we love Debian include the package management, security updates
and the Free Software egalitarian philosophy.
</p>
<h3><a name="bayour.com"></a><a href="http://bayour.com">Bayour.com</a></h3>
<p>
I'm using Debian GNU/Linux on one i386 user server (doing
IMAP, POP, Shell services etc). To this comes two Debian
GNU/Linux SPARC servers hosting the LDAP, Kerberos and
DNSSEC services for my network.
</p>
<p>
On the Intel, the users authenticate/authorize against the
LDAP/Kerberos setup (no users in traditional /etc/{passwd,shadow}
etc). Using AFS (OpenAFS) for distributed storage of webdirectories,
homedirectories etc guaranties availability and security
of file services.
</p>
<p>
Users can now (if need be) have access to their homedirectory
at home securely through this encrypted network filesystem.
</p>
<h3><a name="MerloStation"></a><a href="http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/merlo_station/sst/">Merlo Station Science and Technology High School, Beaverton, Oregon</a></h3>
<p>
At this public school, Debian is used on a small number of
workstations and a couple servers serving the Debian boxes for
home directories, DNS, etc. Debian is used by the students
primarily for programming and computer graphics classes, extensive
use of The GIMP, blender, emacs and GCC. I switched the Linux
boxes from Red Hat for security and simplicity, RPM is a major
problem to deal with and allowing anybody with access to the
keyboard to reboot and get root on a standard install was not
desirable. Debian gave the school what it needed most in the
simplest form possible for the student-run network. MSNRSTHS is a
public magnet school in the Beaverton School District.
</p>
<h3><a name="IMAPMC"></a>City Hall of Campinas city, Sao Paulo, Brazil</h3>
<p>
We use Debian in all Linux servers (there are also Solaris and AIX
servers). Debian takes care of email, Web, DNS and light database
services. Mission critical applications for the city management
run on Debian servers.
</p>
<h3><a name="hardware.no"></a><a href="http://www.hardware.no">Hardware.no</a></h3>
<p>
We run about eight servers, all running Debian, serving one of the
largest online tech news sites in Norway. Debian provides good and
timely security updates and its developers are usually quite
responsive to bug reports and such. We'll be continuing running
Debian.
</p>
<h3><a name="Catalyst"></a><a href="http://catalyst.co.nz/">Catalyst</a></h3>
<p>
From 14 October the systems for registering domains in the .nz
cctld will be running on Debian systems. This application will be
released under the GPL next year and will include full
implementations of client and server software for registering
domains within a TLD. We are using a mix of PostgreSQL, Apache
and mod_perl for developing the application, which includes custom
replication architecture for replication and redundancy.
</p>
<p>
Catalyst currently have two Debian developers in house (myself and
Matthew Grant), operating and supporting many Debian systems as well
as actively promoting Debian and Linux in general.
</p>
<h3><a name="euronetics"></a><a href="http://www.euronetics.se/">EuroNetics Operation KB</a></h3>
<p>
At EuroNetics Operation KB we have standardized on the Debian platform and use
it on over thirty servers and on our diskless clients. We use it because of the
stability, amount of packaged software and ease of updates.
</p>
<h3><a name="grundig"></a><a href="http://www.grundig.de/">Grundig AG</a></h3>
<p>
We are just ongoing to change all servers from Windows 2000 to
Debian "woody". The reasons are costs, reliability, security, fast
security updates and ease of use.
</p>
<h3><a name="intellicare"></a><a href="http://www.intellicare.de/">Intellicare GmbH</a></h3>
<p>
At IntelliCare, I am currently replacing my SuSE desktop (Network
Administration workstation) and our Gentoo IDS sensors with Debian. We
develop hardware & software for hospitals, and we will use Debian for HA server
clusters as well as workstations (development is currently on Windows, but we
plan to migrate/cross-develop ASAP). The main reasons for choosing Debian are
that it is a free, open-source GNU system, and the wonderful support through
the world-wide accessible Newsgroups and mailing lists.
</p>
<p>
At home, my wife & I am of course using Debian as well.
</p>
<h3><a name="UNSW-CS"></a>School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Australia</h3>
<p>
CSE, UNSW, are now standardized on Debian for all their ia32 equipment,
which includes all the computers in the undergraduate teaching
labs. In all, this is over 500 computers.
</p>
<h3><a name="UNSW-BIO"></a>Bioinformatics, University of New South Wales, Australia</h3>
<p>
Within Bioinformatics, all the machines, both servers and
workstations have been standardized on using Debian. This is
generally because of the high levels of support available from
Debian, and the simplified administration that the Debian package
management system provides. Lesser, but still strong reasons are
the care and quality checking that most maintainers put in their
packages.
</p>
<h3><a name="UNSW-COMPSOC"></a>COMPSOC, Computing Students Society, UNSW</h3>
<p>
COMPSOC, as a society that represents over five thousand students
to various bodies, both inside and outside of UNSW, have
centralised on using Debian on all their hosts. Reasons for this
include the fact that Debian will run, without tweaking, on a large
range of hardware - of different architectures, and of differing
age. This single fact vastly simplifies administration, and makes
it easier to centralise many tasks. The quality control and
package management are also bonuses for us.
</p>
<h3><a name="hispalinux"></a><a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">Spanish Linux User Group</a></h3>
<p>
We use it in all our servers (3 at the moment). We choose it for being
free (of course, for being Debian, too).
</p>
<p>
It is our WEB server, FTP server, RSYNC server, DAV server, Mail
server, CVS server... it is EVERYWHERE!
</p>
<h3><a name="heureka"></a><a href="http://www.heureka.co.at/">HeureKA -- Der EDV Dienstleister</a></h3>
<p>
We provide web, mail and file services on-site to our SME
customers. After being long time SuSE users, we switched completly over
to Debian GNU/Linux one and a half year ago. The online upgrade
facilities greatly reduced the need for on-site technical work, reducing
cost both for our customers and us. Especially the quick online security
updates and the ease of installation reduce the administrative load on
our decent number of deployed systems.
</p>
<h3><a name="carnet"></a><a href="http://www.carnet.hr/">CARNet, Croatian Academic and Research Network</a></h3>
<p>
CARNet has always been a proponent of open systems and has always
used free software whenever it was applicable. Even on its Solaris
systems, .deb is used as the preferred package format, the whole
GNU tool set is packaged, and in fact switching to entirely free
operating systems like GNU/Linux is perfectly allowed and welcomed.
</p>
<p>
In the year 2002, a slightly customized version of Debian was made
and deployed on over a hundred different servers, most of which are
running multiple services and serving hundreds and thousands of
users on academic institutions supported by CARNet throughout
Croatia. CARNet maintains its own repository of customized .deb
packages, provides support for Debian as the recommended GNU/Linux
to be used by system administrators on the network, and plans to
deploy even more Debian servers in the future.
</p>
<h3><a name="cistron"></a><a href="http://www.cistron.nl">Cistron</a></h3>
<p>
ISP running completely on Debian GNU/Linux. Doing so from the
beginning, lots of our people are (Debian-) Linux maintainers.
</p>
<h3><a name="UNI"></a>National Technical University (UNI - Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), Nicaragua</h3>
<p>
On the National Tecnical University (UNI - Universidad Nacional de
Ingeniería) in Managua/Nicaragua, we are running Debian GNU/Linux on the
five main servers, one Gateway-Linux Box at the (net-)independente
faculty of Electricity and Computing and are going to switch to Debian
soon in the students lab at the central library with approx. 35
computers.
</p>
<h3><a name="Doshisha"></a><a href="http://www.doshisha.ac.jp">Doshisha University</a></h3>
<p>
At Doshisha University, Debian "potato" runs on 256-node Beowulf
cluster, cambria.doshisha.ac.jp. They are arranged on 16-node
computer groups which have 1 diskfull and 15 diskless machines.
Maintenance with Debian installed has been a pleasure with security
updates being only an apt-get away, and the updates being
very prompt.
</p>
<h3><a name="Republica"></a>Facultad de Ciencias and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República</h3>
<p>
At the "Facultad de Ciencias", Debian "woody" runs on over 20
servers. Including the main internet servers: web, mail, ftp, DNS
and firewall. Also there is a incipient computing center, for
scientific software runing almost entirely under woody, and
several workstations for the students.
</p>
<h3><a name="artselect"></a><a href="http://www.artselect.com">Artselect.com</a></h3>
<p>
We use Debian and other open-source tools throughout all technical
aspects of the company: clusters, workstations, remote order
fulfillment relays, etc., and have since we began in early 1998.
We chose Debian for stability, security, ease of administration,
and upgradeability.
</p>
<p>
We sell custom-framed art prints (currently US-only due to export
headaches), and build customized framed-art sites for third parties.
</p>
<h3><a name="INSIA"></a><a href="http://www.insia.org">INSIA</a></h3>
<p>
We chose to run Debian for many reasons. First, I'm both Debian
developer and system administrator of the campus, so using Debian
was quite a natural step. Then, we needed a secure, stable, and
easy to maintain Linux distribution for our 10 servers. The
underlying security infrastructure was clearly a good point for
Debian.
</p>
<p>
Finally, we chose Debian because of its relying philosophy and
policies. These are two important points in an educational
environment. Our students are to become engineers, and using
Debian on an everyday basis will hopefully help us to counter some
of the most common clichés about free software, first at school,
then at work. Using Debian at INSIA is not just a matter of
choosing an Operating System or a Linux Distribution. It's also a
means to bring people to change their mind about free software and
software development in general.
</p>
<p>
The INSIA has about 300 students this year (i.e. on September, 2002). We have
150 brand new Intel-based workstations, running Debian/stable + some
self-packaged pieces of software such as XFree86, which we need because i845
video chipset are not supported in XF4.1. We also have 10 servers running
various services, such as Apache web server, Postfix mail server, etc...
</p>
<h3><a name="CharlesRetina"></a><a href="http://www.charles-retina.com">Charles Retina Institute</a></h3>
<p>
We use Debian/i386 on one server that lets us do backups of
Windows workstations using smbfs, mail service with exim,
antivirus checking using amavis, file service using samba, web
development using Perl and Template Toolkit, and a plethora of
administrative tasks.
</p>
<p>
We found Debian simpler to maintain than the alternatives, and the
support, on the mailing lists, can't be beat.
</p>
<h3><a name="tuxfamily"></a><a href="http://www.tuxfamily.org">TuxFamily</a></h3>
<p>
Tuxfamily runs 7 Debian "Woody" on i386 architecture. All
services are redundant and load-balanced. Tuxfamily is involved in
Debian (4 administrators are Debian Developers) and everything dealing
with freedom, not only free software but also
<a href="http://artlibre.org/">free art licensing</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://vhffs.org/">Vhffs</a> which is used as hosting software is
Debian packaged for maintenance purposes.
</p>
<h3><a name="UOA-IARC"></a><a href="http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu">University of Alaska Fairbanks, IARC -- Frontier Program</a></h3>
<p>
Debian is used in our organization as our primary flavor of Unix,
and is installed on all of our servers (file, print, backup, web,
ftp, email, Samba, netatalk) and the Unix workstations that
scientists use. In addition, we have a (currently) 12 node
cluster running Debian. In total, Debian is running on almost 40
desktop and server systems, as well as more than a dozen laptops.
</p>
<p>
I chose Debian because it has a superior package format that keeps
track of dependencies and is easy to use remotely, and because of
the number of packages available (more than 10,000 right now).
The bug reporting (and fixing!) system is excellent, and the
volunteer help I've received over the years has been incredible.
</p>
<h3><a name="CIPSGA"></a><a href="http://www.cipsga.org.br">CIPSGA - Comite de Incentivo a Produção do Software GNU e Alternativo</a></h3>
<p>
CIPSGA is a non-governmental (non-profit) organization which works
interfacing the statal companies (be them federal, statal or
municipal) with the GNU community. During its first three years of
existence, we have given tens of speeches, and supported the use
of GNU software inside these businesses. Thanks to our work, we
expect to have more than 25 thousand machines running Debian
GNU/Linux in the next 12 months (servers and workstations.)
</p>
<p>
Besides that, CIPSGA has placed 2 of the 8 Brazilian Debian
Developers, which now work in statal companies supporting Debian
GNU/Linux. We created a customization of Debian Woody meant to be
used in schools, unions and other organizations. It consists of an
application server with a semi-automated install procedure which
requires only 4 simple steps to complete. We are creating a
Debian-friendly scenario in Brazil, which is very likely to spread
all over the country, in schools and in "Telecenters" that are
being created to aid in the democratization of Internet access.
</p>
<h3><a name="Valencia"></a>University of Valencia, Robotics Institute</h3>
<p>
At University of Valencia (Spain) Debian "woody" is used as
development platform for the workstations of the
<a href="http://robotica.uv.es/grupos/artec/SimCivil/en_index.html">Dynamics Simulation Group</a>
of the Robotics Institute. There are also a file server and a CVS
repository. The reason to use Debian has been mainly its high
stability and security, and its package management system.
</p>
<h3><a name="Parana"></a><a href="http://www.inf.ufpr.br">Departamento de Informática -- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil</a></h3>
<p>
Debian GNU/Linux is used in 90% of the hosts in the
Departement. The users are Computer Science graduate and
undergraduate students, researchers and the University staff.
</p>
<p>
We have almost 200 hosts, 150 being X-terminals diskless (486,
pentium, pentium-II, K6 and K6II). These X-terminals are connected
to 8-10 modern servers (Athlon 1.4GHz). There are 2-4 NFS servers,
WWW-servers, Mail-servers.
</p>
<h3><a name="Alternex"></a><a href="http://www.alternex.com.br">Alternex S/A</a></h3>
<p>
Alternex S/A, the first ISP at South America is running more than
twelve servers running Debian GNU/Linux and one X-server to serve
your diskless workstations (used by non-technical employees).
</p>
<p>
Two Debian enthusiasts: Gustavo Franco and Carlos Laviola are
leading this internal movement. The relationship between cost and
benefit is the main reason.
</p>
<h3><a name="CBD"></a>Wellington New Zealand CBD Telephone exchange</h3>
<p>
1-n clusters, each 1-5 Cisco 7200's, each Cisco is managed by a
peer PC, running Debian 3.0, postgres and some custom C++ code.
There is an out of band management channel, for dynamic updating
of numbers and connections. Testing has exceeded 200,000 numbers
and 100 calls/sec.
</p>
<h3><a name="UnitedDrug"></a><a href="http://www.united-drug.ie">United Drug plc</a></h3>
<p>
United Drug is a leading provider of services to pharmaceutical
retailers and manufacturers. It is the largest pharmaceutical
wholesaler on the island of Ireland. It is also the market leader
in contract distribution outsourcing (pre-wholesaling) in Ireland
and has achieved No. 1 position in the UK through its joint
venture with Alliance UniChem - UDG.
</p>
<p>
We currently use Debian on two servers, providing webmail, DNS,
network monitoring, fax services, numerous internal web
applications (CRM, Helpdesk, etc.) and other core network
services. We are planning on more Debian installations in the
future as we migrate services from WinNT to GNU/Linux. We chose
Debian because of the ease of maintenance (nothing beats
apt-get!), and the biggest reason of all, stability.
</p>
<h3><a name="WorcesterPolytechnic"></a><a href="http://www.gdc.wpi.edu/">Worcester Polytechnic Institute Game Development Club</a></h3>
<p>
Debian currently runs on the main webserver (cthulhu.gdc.wpi.edu -
Dual Pentium Pro), and the main login server, which handles mail
as well (lovecraft.gdc.wpi.edu - Alpha DS-10 - currently down due
to hard drive failure). It is being considered for the three new
servers that are planned for deployment in the next month.
</p>
<p>
I'm no longer the organization's sysadmin (I graduated) - however,
I chose Debian for the systems I had control of because of my
familiarity (using Debian since 0.96R2 - former maintainer of
apsfilter and abuse), and because of the high security by default
- as well as the application support, and hardware support for the
Alpha.
</p>
<h3><a name="Queens"></a><a href="http://www.econ.queensu.ca/">Department of Economics, Queen's University</a></h3>
<p>
The Economics Department runs Debian on all its servers (there are
four main ones), on five workstation-servers that are used by
graduate students, and on over 20 workstations in almost all
graduate student offices. It is also used by several faculty
members, although a few others use Red Hat and most use other
operating systems.
</p>
<p>
In large part, we use Debian for historical reasons. When we first
started to use Linux, our local expert was a visiting graduate
student who was (and is) a Debian developer. We continue to use it
primarily because of the ease of upgrading and the efforts of the
Debian security team.
</p>
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<h2><a name="submissions" id="submissions">Submissions</a></h2>
<p>
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</p>
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<li>Name of organization</li>
<li>Organization type (educational, nonprofit, commercial, government)</li>
<li><i>(optional)</i> Home page link</li>
<li>A paragraph or two describing how your organization uses Debian.
Try to include details such as the number of workstations/servers,
the software they run, and why you chose Debian over the
competition.
</li>
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