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Linux can be set up as a workstation, server or both. Some will tell you if you just want a good desktop environment stick with Windows but as a server, linux out shines them all. It can be run on just about anything out there and with machines nowadays not having enough memory or disk space is a thing of the past. Licensing is the best part. Almost all software is "open source" which means you not only get the executable software but the source code as well. You can tweak it and recompile it as much as you want. And did I mention most of it is free? No shareware or demos. Over 56 percent of all web servers in the world are Apache, and it comes free with most distributions of linux. Sendmail is another example, it is used by some of the largest ISPs in the world as their e-mail server, and it comes free with linux. As for the future of linux, it is not owned by one person or corporation. It is "owned" by all of us and is contributed to by hundreds of millions of users and programmers around the world. It's gonna be around a while. What's c2? 
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)If your "c2" reference is to the US Gov't security structures, I'd think the work that has been done by the gov't itself to harden ("secure" linux has probably extended it beyond the basic "c2" compliance.
linux has probably extended it beyond the basic "c2" compliance.- Status