SuSE (now Novell)
SuSE is provided by Novell
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Redhat Home Site Fedora is the free version of the RedHat distribution (Fedora Core 5 is current - 9/06) Fedora is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit i386 compatible and Macintosh The distributions are available as CD images (5 CD's) as well as a DVD image Fedora Download Site (at Redhat Home) |
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Debian Home Site (no stable 64-bit release) |
Debian 3.1 is current (9/1/2006) One claim is "as soon as Debian is up and running, all future updates of any scale can be accomplished via the apt-get utility" and eases all upgrades. My Installation guide |
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The Slackware Linux Project (Homepage) - Version 10.2 current (9/2005) Yes - this release is more than a year old !! My Installation guide Note - I installed ver 8.0 on 5/7/2002 - The installation is lacking in autodetection of the mouse, video, ... (I installed Redhat the next day and it autodetected everything) |
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www.lycoris.com just points to Madriva's home page |
 Mandriva (colsolidation of the old Mandrake and Connectiva releases) |
Mandriva Home Page Free Download Site |
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Beehive Home Page - Version 0.6.0 current (4/2003) Free Download Site (at Beehive Home) |
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Gentoo Home Page Free Download Site (list of Mirrors) |
| Caldera is now the SCO Group | ||
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Caldera Home Page Caldera Downloads |
Corel Linux - Purchased by Xandros