Which free linux am I?

Kill Bill

Kill Bill

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Well. Since there's so many distrubutions I don't know which one to get. Basicly the one with most features.
 
CAN You use these at dual boot. See thing is I have a NTDLR and boot.ini file in my C: so my mac os x leopard Operating System can be dectded. Can I do this to triple boot
 
Ubuntu sadly is discontinued on Power PC macs. If you have an intel processor it will probably work and you can dual boot. Opensuse is cool too.
 
jmedina said:
Ubuntu sadly is discontinued on Power PC macs. If you have an intel processor it will probably work and you can dual boot. Opensuse is cool too.
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Who said i'm using a mac. I want it on my hackintosh;) Will a x86 pc based work with ubutnu. I might wait 9 days for the new one to come out
 
Verve said:
Wasn't Red Hat a big one a while back? People don't seem to be talking about it lately.
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Fedora is the offshoot of Red Hat, it was used as their testing grounds for awhile, I believe, and I think RH is focusing mainly on enterprise and servers, and I believe it is no longer free.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong on any of the above, but that's what comes to mind when I hear Red Hat, for some reason. :P
 
munkyeetr said:
Fedora is the offshoot of Red Hat, it was used as their testing grounds for awhile, I believe, and I think RH is focusing mainly on enterprise and servers, and I believe it is no longer free.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong on any of the above, but that's what comes to mind when I hear Red Hat, for some reason. :P
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never seen a free version of Red Hat, not that i know of any. Same applies to SLES (suse linux Enterprise server).
Distros that are not for desktops but Servers and some of them has activation.
 
munkyeetr said:
Fedora is the offshoot of Red Hat, it was used as their testing grounds for awhile, I believe, and I think RH is focusing mainly on enterprise and servers, and I believe it is no longer free.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong on any of the above, but that's what comes to mind when I hear Red Hat, for some reason. :P
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Not exactly...but very close

Redhat is an Enterprise level linux, which means if you want to run it you pay for it. Fedora, is the Open Source project that uses Redhat's source, but has no official affiliation with Redhat itself. Redhat tosses the Open source community a bit of cash and the source and they develop an open source version and if Redhat likes anything they see, they may or may not adopt it into their enterprise level linux.

Same thing with SuSe and OpenSuSe.

The idea is you get your source code tested for free, give open source communities their source code, and if someone were to test out the free one and like it they are more inclined to buy the enterprise one. Lets face it, you aren't going to run your business off of open source linux, you are going to use Enterprise Level Linux if you are serious about it.

There are some exceptions of course. Debian is completely open source and free, and does have some enterprise like functions, as well as some Unixes as well.

What it all really comes down to though with Linux/Unix, is a few things:

1) Compatibility (typically not an issue)
2) Package Managers (everyone has something different)
3) Minor differences (which can be major in some aspects), mostly $PATH, or authentication (like some use /etc/sudoers so there is no need for a root account), how they mount things, etc
 
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