Ubuntu
| Title |
Website |
Description |
| Red
Hat Linux |
www.redhat.com |
Red Hat Linux is marketed
primarily as a server operating system. It is
also popular among companies running computing farms and the like as
the built-in installation scripting tool "kickstart" enables fast
configuring and set up of standardized hardware. From version 8.0, Red
Hat has also targeted the corporate desktop. |
| SuSE |
www.novell.com |
The SUSE Linux distribution was
originally a German translation of Slackware
Linux.
S.u.S.E was founded in late 1992 as a UNIX
consulting group, which among other things regularly released software
packages that included SLS and Slackware,
and printed UNIX/Linux
manuals. S.u.S.E is an acronym for the German phrase "Software- und
System-Entwicklung" ("Software and system development"). |
| BSD |
www.berkley.edu |
BSD stands for “Berkeley
Software Distribution”. It is the name of distributions of source code
from the University of California, Berkeley, which were originally
extensions to AT&T's Research UNIX operating system. Several open
source operating system projects are based on a release of this source
code known as 4.4BSD-Lite. In addition, they comprise a number of
packages from other Open Source projects, including notably the GNU
project. |
| Solaris |
www.solaris.com |
Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. It is certified against the Single Unix Specification as a version of Unix,
and although historically a closed-source project, has since been
open-sourced by Sun Microsystems. It is now one of the largest
open-source projects in the community, and it continues to grow in
features, members, and applications. |
|
Ubuntu
|
www.ubuntu.com |
Ubuntu is a community developed,
linux-based operating system that is
perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the
applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and
spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. |