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Get SUSE!

What is openSUSE?

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, openSUSE.org provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:

• Make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source platform.

• Provide an environment for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.

• Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

With the launch of the openSUSE project, openSUSE is now developed in an open model—public development builds, releases, and sources will be posted frequently here and you will have access to our Bugzilla database for defect reporting. You can also sign up on special interest mailing lists to make sure that you are always getting the most recent news on the openSUSE project and the openSUSE distribution. In time (see our project road map), we will create the next-generation distribution development infrastructure including a code management system and a public build server.
Be Part of It

Read How to Participate and learn more about the openSUSE Community.

Get Slackware!

What is Slackware?

The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table.

Originally developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, the UNIX®-like Linux operating system now benefits from the contributions of millions of users and developers around the world. Slackware Linux provides new and experienced users alike with a fully-featured system, equipped to serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machine-room server. Web, ftp, and email servers are ready to go out of the box, as are a wide selection of popular desktop environments. A full range of development tools, editors, and current libraries is included for users who wish to develop or compile additional software.

Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking “UNIX-like” system. It’s currently based around the 2.6 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.7 (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 Window 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, Mozilla Firefox, plus many more programs. Slackware Linux can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, Duron/Athlon, and the latest multi-core x86 CPUs).

Get Mandriva!

What is Mandriva?

As a true Free Software/Open-Source company, Mandriva freely provides all sources for all its products. In addition, you may download at no charge several Mandriva products over the Internet, including Mandriva Linux Download Edition, Move Download Edition and others. This usually is an excellent way to discover Linux, but hundreds of thousands of users prefer to purchase one of our commercial products. They’ve got a reason to !

Those products have real value over the download version of Mandriva Linux you can download on the Internet for free. To list of
few of them :

• They are different products, with some specific software and customisation
• They include support and various services
• They come with printed documentation
• They include pre-packaged commercial drivers that the free version cannot include. For example, if you own a NVidia video card and use a download version of Mandriva Linux, you will have to download and install your video card drivers separately, and this is no trivial task.
• They include pre-packaged players such as Flash player, Real players that work straight after the installation.

In a word, our commercial products are vastly more convenient and professionally packaged. You get value for your money. Thousands of Mandriva Linux users also choose to subscribe to Mandriva Club. See What is Mandrivaclub?.

Get Knoppix!

What is Knoppix?

Knoppix, or KNOPPIX (pronounced /kˈnɒpɪks/[2]), is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD, one of the first of its kind for any operating system. Knoppix was developed by Linux consultant Klaus Knopper. When starting a program it is loaded from the optical disc and decompressed into a RAM drive. The decompression is transparent and on-the-fly.

Although Knoppix is primarily designed to be used as a Live CD, it can also be installed on a hard disk like a typical operating system. Computers that support booting from USB devices can load Knoppix from a live USB flash drive or memory card.

There are two main editions of Knoppix: the traditional Compact Disc (700 megabytes) edition and the DVD (4.7 gigabytes) “Maxi” edition. Each of these main editions has two language-specific editions: English and German.

Knoppix mostly consists of free software, but also includes proprietary software

Knoppix can be used to back up files easily from hard drives with inaccessible operating systems. To quickly and more safely use Linux software the Live CD can be used instead of installing another OS.

Get Gentoo!

What is Gentoo?

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else — whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a metadistribution.

Of course, Gentoo is more than just the software it provides. It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by more than 300 developers and thousands of users. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure (mailinglists, site, forums …), release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup, hardening and more.

To advise on and help with Gentoo’s global development, a 7-member council is elected on a yearly basis which decides on global issues, policies and advancements in the Gentoo project.

What is Portage?

Portage is the heart of Gentoo, and performs many key functions. For one, Portage is the software distribution system for Gentoo. To get the latest software for Gentoo, you type one command: emerge –sync. This command tells Portage to update your local “Portage tree” over the Internet. Your local Portage tree contains a complete collection of scripts that can be used by Portage to create and install the latest Gentoo packages. Currently, we have more than 10000 packages in our Portage tree, with updates and new ones being added all the time.

Portage is also a package building and installation system. When you want to install a package, you type emerge packagename, at which point Portage automatically builds a custom version of the package to your exact specifications, optimizing it for your hardware and ensuring that the optional features in the package that you want are enabled — and those you don’t want aren’t.

Portage also keeps your system up-to-date. Typing emerge -uD world — one command — will ensure that all the packages that you want on your system are updated automatically.

Get Fedora!

What is Fedora?

Fedora is a Linux based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, a partnership of free software community members from around the globe. Because of its predominance, the word “Fedora” is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.
Our Mission

The Fedora Project’s mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

The three elements of this mission are clear:

* The Fedora Project always tries to lead, not follow.
* The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content.
* The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community.

Our Core Values

The Fedora Project’s core values, or Foundations, are set out on their own wiki page.

We strongly believe in the bedrock principles that created all the components of our operating system, and because of this we guarantee that Fedora will always be free for anybody, anywhere, to use, modify and distribute.
Our Community

Fedora is more than just software, though. It is a community of contributors from around the world who work with each other to advance the interests of the free culture movement. Everyone is invited to join, and no matter what your skills are, we have a place for you in our community! The Fedora community includes software engineers, artists, system administrators, web designers, writers, speakers, and translators — all of whom will be happy to help you get started.
Our Method

Fedora is a center for innovation in free and open source software, and creates a community where contributors of all kinds — developers, documenters, artists, system administrators, and other free software and open source enthusiasts — come together to advance the ecosystem for the benefit of everybody. The Fedora community contributes everything it builds back to the free and open source world and continues to make advances of significance to the broader community, as evidenced by the regular and rapid incorporation of its features into other Linux distributions. Regardless of which Linux distribution you use, you are relying on code developed within the Fedora Project.
Who uses Fedora?

* Linus Torvalds, the creator and primary maintainer of Linux does
* NASA systems
* Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the world
* Evo Smart Console gaming console
* Over a hundred Derived distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OLPC
* Even some robots do
* Millions of other users

Is Fedora for me?

* Do you want the latest stable software, produced and maintained by a growing community of FOSS contributors?
* Do you want a platform that features technologies that use or become the next generation of standards?
* Are you OK with moving your computer’s OS a minimum of about once a year to use these technologies?
* Do you care about sustainable progress in software freedom and innovation?
* Are you interested in becoming part of a community of contribution and helping drive innovation in FOSS?

If the answer to any or all of these questions is “yes,” you should consider Fedora for your Linux OS. We feature the latest in free and open source technologies, and much of this innovation is driven primarily by contributors in the Fedora Project. Because of our dedication to working continuously with upstream software communities, your involvement with Fedora — whether to file a bug or to maintain part of the distribution — is a direct help to all FOSS users worldwide, not promoting a single distribution at the cost of others. This is why the work done in Fedora is used in so many other Linux distributions. By the same token, we actively take an interest in all vital upstream projects to promote good engineering practices and a smooth user experience across distributions.
What makes Fedora different?

We try to always do the right thing, and provide only free and open source software. We will fight to protect and promote solutions that anyone can use and redistribute. With this in mind, all of our developers are focused on working closely with upstream, so everyone can benefit from our work and get access to our changes as soon as possible. Due to the huge amount of innovation that Fedora drives, this focus has had significant and long lasting effects. Some of the recent developments in free and open source software that Fedora has driven include:

* NetworkManager
* D-Bus
* PolicyKit
* PackageKit
* HAL
* FreeIPA
* SELinux
* PulseAudio

The reverse is also true: by sticking close to upstream development teams, Fedora often gets the latest software before anybody else. Not only does this benefit our community, but it also benefits the upstream teams by providing a much larger audience and more feedback for them.

Another striking difference of Fedora is our goal to empower others to pursue their vision of what a free operating system should be like. Fedora now forms the basis for derivative distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux , the One Laptop Per Child XO and Creative Commons’ Live Content DVDs.

And that’s not all. It is just as easy for individuals to create their own distribution, thanks to Fedora’s easy remixing tools. These tools allow you to quickly select the packages you want, and create live images for CD/DVD or USB, or installation discs. Some official versions, or what we call “spins,” of Fedora have grown up this way, including:

* Fedora Electronic Lab (installable Live DVD)
* Fedora Xfce Spin (installable Live CD)
* Fedora Games Spin (installable Live DVD)

How do I get Fedora?

Easy, just visit this page and download it. You can try it without installing anything on your computer, thanks to our Live images on CD or USB – in fact, you can even create a Live USB stick from within Windows !

If you have a slow internet connection, or no internet connection at all, then you can still get Fedora thanks to our volunteer Free Media program.
How do I join Fedora?

Like what you see and want to help out? That’s easy too! This page has all the information you need, and don’t forget that all our contributors get access to some awesome tools to help them get their work done:

* Fedora People provides free webspace for hosting Fedora related content
* Fedora Planet is an aggregation of contributor blogs so you can see what everyone is up to
* Fedora Hosted is the perfect location for hosting your free and open source projects
* Fedora’s own Gobby server , so we can collaboratively work on documents in real time
* Fedora Build System to build your software across multiple architectures
* The skills and experience of hundreds of fellow Fedora contributors!