Other open source browsers incorporate Mozilla??™s
engine. The Mozilla project also offered a suite of related Internet clients that included
e-mail, composer, IRC Chat, and address book software. New software development
from the Mozilla project focuses on the Thunderbird e-mail and news client and Firefox
Web browser, which have seen enormous success on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X
platforms in the past few years. The old Mozilla suite is offered today under the name
Seamonkey (www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey).
The Samba Project (www.samba.org) provides software for sharing files and printers
using CIFS and SMB clients. These protocols are the most common means of sharing files
and printers with Microsoft Windows operating systems.
The Sendmail Consortium (www.sendmail.org) maintains the sendmail mail transport
agent, which is the world??™s most popular software for transporting mail across the
Internet.
There are, of course, many more open source projects and organizations that provide software
included in various Linux distributions, but the ones discussed here will give you a good feel for
the kind of organizations that produce open source software.
Linux in the Real World
To see how Linux and related free and open source software is being used today in the real world,
I??™ve provided some short examples that relate to Linux use in schools, small business, and enterprise
venues.
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