Published at LXer:

Linux-based operating systems are built through an open-development model, which can afford organizations an early view of—and an opportunity to influence—the technologies and implementations that will eventually work their way into these companies' infrastructures. What's more, these early looks extend beyond points on a presentation slide deck to comprise runable code that's gathered into fast-moving, community-supported Linux distributions that administrators can begin testing in advance of the long-lived, enterprise-oriented releases to come.

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