Operating Systems

Red Hat 

Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middle ware, applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services.
 It's built on open standards and uses a simple graphical interface.

How is Red Hat's licensing different from other software?

• No licensing fee for the right to use Red Hat software.

• For one annual fee, customers can take advantage of all the value Red Hat offers.

• There is no lock-in, so when a subscription expires, customers are free to keep using the software.

• The annual subscription model forces Red Hat to earn its business year after year.

• If services don't live up to expectations, then customers are free to choose another vendor.

Red Hat collaborates with the open source community to develop technology that makes its way into Fedora and JBoss.org projects. This technology makes its way into Red Hat® Enterprise Linux and JBoss® Enterprise Middleware. This innovation returns to the community. The cycle is continuous.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops,desktops and severs. It contains almost all the applications like a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. The Ubuntu promise

• Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.
• Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.
• Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.

       Ubuntu Philosophy

SUSE

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USE Linux Enterprise Desktop is an all-in-one solution. It includes a complete office suite (OpenOffice.org, Novell Edition ), a web browser (Firefox) , instant messaging (Gaim), collaboration tools (Novell Evolution), photo and music management software and dozens of powerful business tools.