linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
provides numerous features and benefits:
- Unparalleled cost/performance ratio
- Stable and secure environmet
- For the cost of a single server license, you get the lot - operating system, robust file and print server, email server, web server, database server, software development environment and tools, etc. You do not need separate client access licenses for your PCs - connect to the server as many computers as you wish, if server's hardware can handle them all
- Virus and spam free environment, so you can concetrate on productivity
- Desktop license includes not only the operating system and development tools - system also comes with full Office application suite(s), superior email client(s) and web bowser(s), range of productivity, mutimedia and graphics applications, etc
- Products are supported for seven[!] years after the release date and you can rest assured that bug fixes and security updates will not 'break' the system - updates are just updates to released code, not feature and functionallity additions
- Access to multiple-system management tools through Red Hat Network
- Great discounts for academic institutions
Fedora,
the most comprehensive Linux distribution to date, provides:
- Free of charge, high quality desktop operating system
- Abundance of superior software applications for every task, all at $0 cost
- Some of the latest, cutting edge technologies in addition to everything included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
- Regular security updates
- Freedom to use software as you see fit, not someone else
- Virus and spam free environment
CentOS
is Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone.
- CentOS is built from Red Hat Enterprise source code
- The only difference is branding
- CentOS is free of charge
