Zarqawi's cumulous Lennox bolt it's important to understand that cumulous Linux is a native Linux distribution.
It's an open distribution and it's not proprietary and it's not Linux like.
In other words it's a real Linux distribution.
It's also built from Debian wesay unlike a lot of other operating systems that are kind of built on
top of a Linux distribution or have their own Selye that runs on top of Linux.
Cumulous Linux is a native Linux distribution that's based on Debian wesay unlike an example like Cisco
Nexxus way you run a Cisco supply and then can run a bash shell dropping down to the Linux operating
system with cumulous Linux you are running Linux.
So when you log into the box you get a bash shell when you want to configure things on the switch.
You could use vi or Neno and as some would quote cumulous Linux is unabashedly Linux.
It's not a kind of Linux operating system or Linux like it is a Linux cumulous took the approach that
they were going to use a Linux operating system instead of a hybrid operating system where you have
a command line that's built on top of Linux.
So instead of having half the network configuration done via the command line and half done via Linux
you'd do everything in cumulous Linux using the linux shell cumulous approached networking by delivering
a full blown all inclusive Linux operating system.
The idea is that you can use all the applications that you may be used to using on servers but now you
can use them on network devices.
So as an example if you're a server guy and you've been working with Linux for the last 15 or 20 years
you could S-sh to cumulous Linux box in the same way that you would S-sh to an a boon to server as an
example.
You could use CD to move from one directory to another.
You could use vi to look at network configuration as an example.
You can do server reloads stop and start services and so forth just like you would do with a Linux server.
All of the utilities that you use from a Linux environment are available to you through cumulous Linux
running on hardware switches.
The key difference with running cumulous Linux versus running a standard Linux operating system on a
server is that you get hardware acceleration.
There's nothing stopping you using a Linux box as a two port router.
In other courses that I've created I show you how to run Open vse which on a Raspberry Pi say you could
create a open flow enabled software defined networking switch simply by using a five dollar Raspberry
Pi zero.
However that device is not going to give you the line rate speeds and hardware acceleration that you
would get with cumulous Linux with cumulous Linux as an example you could have a 32 port switch with
each port providing 40 gigabits per second.
You're not going to get the line rate performance of an async based switch with a traditional server.
Today.