Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions

1. Ubuntu

Like most of you, Ubuntu is my #1 choice for desktop Linux. I use it both at home and work. Ubuntu is the #1 in the Linux desktop market and some use Ubuntu for the servers also. Ubuntu offers the following three editions.

2. Debian

Debian is also called as Debian GNU/Linux, as most of the basic OS tools comes from the GNU Project. Lot of other famous distributions are based on Debian, which includes our #1 distro Ubuntu and many others — such as Knoppix, Linspire, Damn Small Linux etc.

3. Fedora

Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat. If you are interested in experimenting with the the leading technologies, you should use fedora, as the release cycle is very short and fedora tends to include the latest technology software/packages in it’s distribution.

4. CentOS

If your organization does not want to spend money on purchasing Red Hat support, but still want all the benefits of the red-hat distribution, this is obviously the best choice, as this is totally based on the red-hat enterprise Linux.

5. Red Hat

This is my favorite server distribution. If an organization doesn’t mind spending dollars on purchasing the red-hat support, this is always my #1 recommendation to any organization who runs mission critical applications.

A Decade Of Linux

More than ten years ago, I helped Linux's adoption along by proving out that Linux and Samba actually worked faster than the then-dominant Windows NT operating system. Today, as we bid adieu to the 'noughts', everyone uses Linux in devices from DVRs (digital video recorders) and smartphones, to the Internet, where everything from search engines such as Google to the social networks like Facebook and Twitter to vital business networks like the world's stock markets rely on Linux. Only the desktop remains unconquered, and who knows? Between Linux-powered netbooks and Google's Chrome OS, by 2019 perhaps even that will have changed. After all, who would have thought in 1999 that Linux would have quietly become so prevalent throughout computing?