NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Commercial and community Linux distributions by the same vendor

Red Hat's release of Fedora Core started a popular trend amongst commercial Linux distribution vendors (and even one Unix vendor), that of creating a community distribution closely related to a commercial distribution, with the community distribution acting as a faster developing, testing bed for the commercial distribution. Red Hat, Inc. ... Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

Red Hat, Inc. ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. ... Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. ... Linspire, previously known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced as Lindash), is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. ... Linspire, previously known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced as Lindash), is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology. ... Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team. ... SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ... Screenshot of SUSE Linux 10. ...