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10-23-2007, 08:15 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 15
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OS question
Since I've joined LQ I've seen quite a few different names of Unix/Linux type OS's. Could someone give me a quick run down of what OS's are for what?
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10-23-2007, 08:23 PM
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Registered: Nov 2006
Location: USA, CA
Distribution: RedHat, Debian
Posts: 202
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10-23-2007, 08:27 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Danville, VA
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
Posts: 5,296
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Hi Kage6060, Welcome to lq. Have a look at distro watch.
Good Luck. ;-)
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10-23-2007, 08:31 PM
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Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Canada
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 702
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Hmm, there really is no specific purpose of a Nix OS.
SUN Solaris
SCO OpenServer
SCO Unixware
IBM AIX
HP UX
Linux - I won't even go down to the specific distributions
BSD - many variants here also
Apple OS-X - yes this is Unix ... well BSD
there are still more
NCR Unix
IRIX
Lynx
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10-23-2007, 11:13 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Bristol VA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3 / Slack 10
Posts: 13
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Not really a particular purpose for any distro. I would not that each distro is certainly targeted at different audiences.
Check out distrowatch.com. IMHO Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS are a couple of the best for new users.
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10-23-2007, 11:43 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Kubuntu 12.10 (using awesome wm though)
Posts: 3,530
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Some distros have specific uses, e.g. rescue & recovery, targeted at old / resource poor systems and so on. Most distros are genereal purpose however.
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