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Well-Known Linux Distributions |
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| There is
often a fine line between "leading" and
"well-known" distributions. Some polls now show
that a few of these "well-known" distributions
are currently more popular than some of the
"leading" distributions.
ASPLinux
http://www.asp-linux.com/
ASPLinux is a Russian distribution from a multi-national
company based in Singapore. The Red Hat based ASPLinux
GNU/Linux distribution, includes all components for
creation of a high perfomance Internet/Intranet server
or powerful multimedia workstation. ASP 7.3 (vostok) was
released August 13, 2002.
Beehive Linux
http://www.beehive.nu/
Beehive Linux is a distribution made by system
administrators, for system administrors. It's intent is
to provide fast and clean setup of workhorse servers and
workstations. Version 0.5.0 was released April 16, 2002.
Conectiva Linux
http://www.conectiva.com/
Based in Brazil, Conectiva is well-known in South
America and has excellent Portuguese and Spanish
support. Conectiva 8.0 was released April 17, 2002.
e-smith
http://www.e-smith.com/
Now owned by Mitel Networks, e-smith is a server and
gateway distribution. Mitel released version 5.5 of the
SME Server on July 3, 2002. The SME Server version 5.6
developer release came out January 15, 2003.
Kondara MNU/Linux
http://www.kondara.org/
Kondara MNU/Linux is a Japanese distribution based on
Raw Hide (Red Hat's development branch). Kondara MNU/Linux
2.1 was released March 18, 2002. Minor updates released
on May 10, 2002.
Rock
Linux
http://www.rocklinux.org/
http://www.rocklinux.org/projects/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/drock/
This is a source based distribution. Rock Linux comes in
a variety of flavors, from the Rock Linux massive
parallel project (cluster) to the rocksolid credit card
rocklinux, with the dROCK desktop in between. The
current version of Rock Linux is 1.5.16 as of July 8,
2002. The dRock desktop distribution released version
2.0-alpha on March 30, 2003.
SOT Linux
http://www.sot.com/en/
SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. provides a very
popular distribution (once known as Best Linux) with
excellent language support for many languages. SOT Linux
2002 was released April 24, 2002.
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