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Fedora:fedoraproject.org
Mandriva: www.mandriva.com
And others:
The OpenSolaris project is an open source
project sponsored by Sun Microsystems,
Inc, that is initially based on a subset of
the source code for the Solaris Operating
System.
Operating Systems:
Fedora Core is an operating system and platform,
based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to
use, modify and distribute, now and forever.
Fedora Core is part of the Fedora Project, sponsored
by Red Hat, Inc.
Linux – literally 100's of distributions:
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating
system for x86 compatible (including
Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64
compatibles, UltraSPARC®, IA-64,
PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of
UNIX® developed at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Application Software:
The apache http (web) server &
many others projects
The GNU software project from the Free Software Foundation
Includes many of the unix ulitities used by linux distro's (gcc, gmake, emacs,...), desktops tools
(gnome) and complete application suites (GIMP, octave)
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.
Compatible with all major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 and its sibling commercial office suite, and StarOffice 8 are the most mature
tools available today to users seeking to create documents in Open Document Format (ODF).
Open source refers to the users' freedom to use, copy, distribute, study, change and
improve the software by following particular and well-defined licensing rules