Provided that a particular linux server meets the system requirements, Discus will run on that system. Although "linux" is an acronym for "linux is not unix,", Discus runs on a linux system in almost exactly the same way as it runs on unix systems such as Solaris.

You should follow setup instructions for the unix platform when installing on linux. It may interest you to know that DiscusWare develops and tests our software, and runs our world wide web servers, using linux, and we have since the summer of 1998.