What is a Linux File Server?
A Linux file server is usually called a terminal server and it is extremely helpful for doling out and serving data files and applications to computers that are connected to the Linux terminal server. For instance, let’s say you have an office that includes 10 individual computers, generally in a business environment certain individual computers will need to access the same applications, data files and the internet. A terminal file server creates a network of these 10 computers in which you don’t have to rely on each individual computer to have their own application files and data files. All files and applications can be stored on the Linux Terminal File server. Having a Linux terminal file server requires less maintenance and computer upgrades of your individual computers, makes configuration much easier, because it is all done on a centralized server, reduces the cost of buying individual software products and since Linux is open source, creating the terminal file server and loading
