主题：【荣誉推荐】基于Linux内核的开放源代码操作系统的组成 -- Highway

hey 孤子, thanks your introduction for "PORTS", I have used FreeBSD for mail server, didn't know that....

for johny's post:

RedHat is good for the first time users, currently has the biggest market share in Linux world!? easy to install on most of the HW platforms.

Fedora is sponsored by RH, but not a supported product of RH.

Slackware, you need to know what you are doing, because you will install everything manually, stable, slowly update.

Debian, easy to install and update packages (dselect, dpkg, apt-get..., I don't have an installed Debian on hand, might be wrong), stable.

SuSE, I feel it is good at drivers support (video, sound, NIC...)

FreeBSD, BSD family (Open/Net/Free)is also free UNIX, different from Linux though, OpenBSD is so-called the most secure UNIX, not sure if it's true.

these distributions have their own developed applications, which all based on the same Linux kernal (except BSD), for a project's point of view, they are all the same as long as you fine tuning it.