Elphick Bretagne

We supply and install Linux operating systems. An operating system is the software that controls the basic functions of your computer. It manages the keyboard, screen and disks and makes sure that other programs are able to run and get hte resources they need. Though the majority of PCs in the world run some form of Microsoft Windows, that operatin... g system is extremely insecure, and, being the product of a monopolistic corporation, expensive both to buy and to maintain. Linux, on the other hand, is free and easier to maintain. A trained administrator can manage 50 to 100 Linux machines more easily than a Microsoft administrator can manage 20 Windows PCs. There are many distributions of Linux. The best known are those promoted by commercial organisations, such as Red Hat and Suse (now owned by Novell). Elphick Bretagne, however, offer the Debian distribution. Debian is put together by a completely volunteer project, made up of nearly 1,000 maintainers, each of whom manage one or more of the 11,000+ software packages that make Debian the most comprehensive Linux distribution in the world. All Debian's packages are stored in its central repository and its worldwide mirrors. The centralisation ensures that all packages work together; the very fact that they are in the repository means that their dependencies are correct and that a package will not unexpectedly cause problems for other packages. The widely acclaimed and copied apt software automatically downloads and installs any packages that a package that you choose to install needs in order to operate. Apt also makes upgrading your software an almost painless experience. Our principal consultant, Oliver Elphick, has been a member of the Debian project and maintainer of the PostgreSQL package since 1997. Therefore we are most comfortable with recommending Debian as our Linux distribution of choice. We can install it for you on an existing PC or on a new machine built to your specification.Read More