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Linux, in case you’ve never heard, is an open source operating system (OS), and is sometimes a free alternative to running Microsoft Windows on your PC or server. Because of the nature of it’s license, many companies or individuals have the right to compile their own “flavor” and redistribute it, typically with a “brand” name referred to as a distribution.

Two of the more popular enterprise-level distributions are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Suse Linux from Novell. Because of Red Hat’s license, a distribution called CentOS was created that is basically the same as the Red Hat distribution. Ubuntu is a relatively new distro that is built on the meaning behind the word (see Ubuntu (ideology) on Wikipedia.org)

More Information

• Linux on Wikipedia.org
• Linux.org The Linux Home Page at Linux Online

• Linux.com The Enterprise Linux Resource

News

• The Linux Action Show! Podcast

My Favorite Distros (also see DistroWatch)

• Ubuntu “Linux for Human Beings” (based on Debian)
• CentOS “The Community ENTerprise Operating System” (based on Red Hat)
• Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise)

Notes, Tips, Tricks, Hacks

• RE: SUSE 10.x:
  • Hacking SUSE on DesktopLinux.com – Article by Jem Matzan that explains how to: add download sources to YaST; install the Mozilla Thunderbird email client; add support for Java, Flash, Acrobat, Windows Media, MP3s, and RealMedia; play DVDs — and more.
  • Windows Vista vs. SUSE

• Using Xgl on SUSE Linux