Module 0177: What do you use a Linux server for?

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

June 15, 2009
1 About this module
2 What is a server (and what is a client)?
 2.1 An example: file serving
 2.2 Another example: web serving
 2.3 Home theatre serving
3 Terminology
 3.1 Service
 3.2 Client
 3.3 Server
 3.4 Computer or program?
4 Not-so-conventional servers
 4.1 VNC
 4.2 Virtual Machine
 4.3 Multi-media