Community vs. Commercial GNU/Linux Distributions

Courtesy Debian-News.net  Tue, 10/21/2008 - 14:57

You can categorize most GNU/Linux distributions as either community or commercial. Community-based distributions like Debian, Fedora, or CentOS are maintained largely by volunteers and donations of services or money, while commercial distributions like Suse, Red Hat, or Xandros are backed by a company and compete directly against proprietary operating systems such as Windows and OS X.


 

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