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FreeBSD Overview -
www.freebsd.com
FreeBSD is an open source BSD UNIX operating system. Developed and
maintained by a core team, FreeBSD came to life in 1993 and has
grown in popularity ever since. This operating system has earned
a reputation of being very secure and stable, even under the most
demanding circumstances. It is for this reason that many corporations
have chosen it for their mission critical servers. FreeBSD comes
with full server functionality, including web, DNS, email, FTP,
news, telnet and encrypted telnet servers. Additionally, FreeBSD
comes with the extensive ports collection, which allows for simple
one-step downloading, configuring, and installing of thousands of
applications. FreeBSD is respected for flexibility and reliability.
If you're FreeBSD savvy, this is the choice for you.
Sites that use FreeBSD-
www.hotmail.com
www.yahoo.com
www.mp3.com
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RedHat Linux Overview -
www.redhat.com
RedHat Linux is an open source, UNIX derivative operating system.
Originally created by a Finnish university student, Linus Torvalds,
Linux has been further developed by programmers around the world,
and has become an excellent, low cost alternative to commercial UNIX
operating systems. RedHat Linux comes with full server functionality,
including web, DNS, email, FTP, news, telnet and encrypted telnet
servers. Yahoo! Servers also include an easy-to-use, console-based
configuration utility to simplify common server tasks such as starting
and stopping services and creating virtual web accounts. RedHat Linux
is an excellent choice for people interested in administering their
own machine, who have had some experience with UNIX operating systems,
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Slackware
Overview - www.slackware.com
Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system.
It's currently based around the 2.2 Linux kernel series and the GNU
C Library version 2.1.2 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation
program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package
system. A full installation gives you the X Windows System, C/C++
development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server,
a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation
Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. And Slackware
Linux can run on 386 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines.
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