Linux Distributions

Linux, unlike other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS, is not controlled by a single organisation - it is actually a collection of the "Linux Kernel", a variety of utilities and libraries from the GNU operating system and collection of other programs/applications. These are then "packaged together" and distributed/sold by various companies such as RedHat (under their RedHat Enterprise commerical brand or via their free Fedora or Centos brands), Debian (which then 'sub-packaged' to produce the popular Ubuntu collection), Yellow Dog, Slackware and many others.

Beebware has experience of working on Debian, Fedora, RedHat and Centos based systems - however, since the majority of Linux distributions are quite similar we are reasonably comfortable supporting other distributions as well.

Linux server administration

We have experience in installing, managing/administrating and support over 30 Linux based servers at a time - each hosting between 5 and 5,000 internet websites! We can help you administer and support your collection of Linux servers - whether they are web servers (running Apache), mail servers (running Exim, Courier, Cyrus IMAP, Dovecot, qmail or Sendmail) with and without anti-spam capabilities (such as SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor and MailScanner), web hosting servers (running cPanel, Ensim, Webmin or Plesk) or just a file server running Samba or NFS.

Featured Project: eCommerce Sales Reporting

Pulling in information from a remote Microsoft SQL database Server (MS-SQL) and a remote PostgreSQL database server, this application allowed for online sales figures to be viewed for the two eCommerce systems in operation (previously there was no sales reporting information available) and for the information to be compared between the systems.

Written in PHP, this system utilised the Yahoo! YUI Javascript library to enable online graphs to be displayed and interacted with - along with allowing output in web page (HTML) and CSV (Comma Seperate Value) file formats for importing into Microsoft Excel. The system, due to the confidential nature of the data, had a strict user authentication system which used Active Directory network logons and PostgreSQL's user management faciltiies.