| Developer: | Canonical Ltd. | |
| Website: | http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ | |
| Languages: | English | |
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Debian based, Live CD | |
| Platforms: | Intel compatible, PPC, Itanium, 64 bit | |
| Description: | Mainstream distribution based on Debian that includes the latest version of all major software packages. The developers aim to make it accessable in many languages. | |
| Download: | list of download locations here | |
Debian GNU/Linux
| Developer: | Debian | |
| Website: | http://www.debian.org/ | |
| Languages: | English | |
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Debian based | |
| Platforms: | Intel compatible, PPC, Alpha, Sparc, Itanium, Mainframe, m68k, Other, 64 bit | |
| Description: | Debian GNU/Linux is a free distribution of the Linux based operating system.It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort. Along with its large selection of prepackaged software is contains advanced package management tools that allow for easy installation and maintenance on individual systems and workstation clusters. Extensive pre-release testing is done to ensure the highest degree of reliability possible, and a publicly accessible bug tracking system provides an easy way to monitor customer feedback. | |
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| Developer: | Gentoo Technologies, Inc. | |
| Website: | http://www.gentoo.org | |
| Languages: | English | |
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Power user | |
| Platforms: | Intel compatible, PPC, Alpha, Sparc, 64 bit | |
| Description: | Gentoo Linux is designed for the developer, power user and enthusiast.It incorporates the latest sources and technologies (such as ReiserFS and the Portage system). | |
| Download: | list of download locations here | |
| Developer: | Mandriva | ||||
| Website: | http://mandriva.com/ | ||||
| Languages: | English, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Turkish, Thai | ||||
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Red Hat based, Mandriva based | ||||
| Platforms: | Intel compatible, PPC, 64 bit | ||||
| Description: | Mandriva Linux is a powerful operating system that is available for many platforms: 32 bit processors such as Intel Pentium®, AMD Athlon®, PowerPC®; and 64 bit processors such as Intel Itanium® and AMD Opteron®. Mandriva Linux includes many graphical administration assistants & wizards that make it intuitive and fun to use while providing all the power and robustness of other Linux systems. Hundreds of included applications make it an ideal solution for both professional and home users. | ||||
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| Developer: | RedHat Software | ||||
| Website: | http://www.redhat.com/ | ||||
| Languages: | English, Spanish, French, German | ||||
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Red Hat based | ||||
| Platforms: | Intel compatible, Alpha, Itanium | ||||
| Description: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a high-end Linux distribution geared toward businesses with mission-critical needs. | ||||
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| Website: | http://www.rocklinux.org/ | |
| Languages: | English, German | |
| Categories: | Power user | |
| Platforms: | Intel compatible | |
| Description: | ROCK Linux is a modern Linux Distribution with a powerful auto-build process. It's mostly designed for skilled Linux/Unix Administrators. It's available for multiple platforms. ROCK Linux is a small distribution, but it's not a "mini distribution". It comes with over 200 packages including X11 and the GNOME Desktop - but excluding menu driven configuration tools (most professional users prefer configuration files). A reasonably well configured installation of Rock Linux should be useful for any computer user (even beginners). | |
| Download: | list of download locations here | |
| Developer: | The Slackware Linux Project | |
| Website: | http://www.slackware.com/ | |
| Languages: | English | |
| Categories: | Mainstream/General Public, Power user | |
| Platforms: | Intel compatible | |
| Description: | Slackware Linux is compatible with most Intel PC hardware. Slackware will provide stellar performance on high-end systems, including support for symmetric multi-processing (up to 16 processors), PCI, and special code optimizations for the 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro and AMD Athlon | |
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1 comment:
This is interesting. VADLO comes to mind, it is a bioinformatics software search engine. There are good research cartoons also.
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