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== Operating systems ==
[[File:Cobalt Qube 3 Front.jpg|thumb|Sun's [[Cobalt Qube]] 3; a computer [[server appliance]] (2002); running Cobalt Linux (a customized version of Red Hat Linux, using the 2.2 Linux kernel), complete with the Apache web server.]]
On the Internet, the dominant [[operating system]]s among servers are UNIX-like [[open source software|open-source]] [[Software distributiondistro|distributions]], such as those based on [[Linux]] and [[FreeBSD]],<ref name="linuxusage">{{cite web |url= http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all|title=Usage statistics and market share of Linux for websites|access-date=18 Jan 2013}}</ref> with [[Windows Server]] also having a significant share. Proprietary operating systems such as [[z/OS]] and [[macOS Server]] are also deployed, but in much smaller numbers. Servers that run Linux are commonly used as Webservers or Databanks. Windows Servers are used for Networks that are made out of Windows Clients.
 
Specialist server-oriented operating systems have traditionally had features such as: