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CPU Review: LinuxWars: Distribution War II [Updated to include Red Hat 6.1]

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 3, 1999

[ Thanks to Bill
Henning
for this link. ]

In the months since I published “LinuxWars: Distributions
at War” new versions of the major Linux distributions have become
available.

“Now that I’ve recently reviewed three of the latest leading
Linux distributions, it is time to publish a new head-to-head
comparison between them – the Second Distribution War if you
will….”

“The contestants: (in the order I reviewed them)

1.Caldera OpenLinux 2.3


2.SuSE 6.2


3.Mandrake Linux 6.1


4.RedHat 6.1 Deluxe

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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