Linux Distributions: Well-known through Unknown
Overview
About the instructor
About Eklektix, Inc.
Goal of this talk
Structure of a Linux system
Distributions
Package Managers
KDE and GNOME
Brief History
Well-known Distributions
Up and Coming
More Up and Coming
Categorizing Distributions
Categories, cont.
Language Support
More Non-English
Non-Intel Hardware
Non-Intel, cont.
Special Purpose Linux
Special Purpose, cont.
And still more
So, why so many?
Disadvantages
How Linux Can Survive
What You Can Do
Summary
Resources
News Sources
Author: Elizabeth Coolbaugh
E-mail: cool@lwn.net
Further information: HTML version of StarOffice slides for the talk: "Linux Distributions: Well-known through Unknown" presented at the Front Range Unix User's Group, July 29th, 1999.
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