{"id":367,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-27T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:52:30","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-200","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=367","title":{"rendered":"A Treasure Chest of Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nGetting a copy of Linux is obviously an important part of the install. Technically, Linux is the <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>,\n so it isn&#8217;t all that big. You can download the latest kernel from many sites. However, if you want all the programs and\n utilities that go along with Linux, you will probably spend days downloading everything.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe alternative is to\nbuy a copy. A dozen different versions are available in many more different configurations. Some are sold as a single\n<glossary>CD-ROM<\/glossary>,\nothers come with CD-ROMs full of shareware or demos, still others are bundled with commercial products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne <glossary>argument<\/glossary> that I frequently encounter\nagainst <glossary>UNIX<\/glossary>\nin general compared to Windows NT is that so many different versions compete with each other.\nWith Windows NT, there is only one product. For me, that is an argument in favor of UNIX. No matter what your needs, no\nmatter what your tastes, there is a UNIX version to suit you.\n<\/p><p>\nYou need <glossary>WWW<\/glossary>\nServer and Web development tools? No problem. Development system? No problem. So, you <i>really<\/i> want to pay for\nall this? No problem. If you want, you could get it all for free even if Linux wasn&#8217;t what you wanted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the next few sections, we will take a quick\nlook at a few of these distributions. This list is far from complete and represents only those versions I\nhave installed. For more information on these distributions and the others that I didn&#8217;t install, the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tldp.org\/HOWTO\/CD-Distributions-EN-HOWTO\/index.html\">Linux Distribution HOWTO<\/a>\ncontains, among other things, contact and pricing information. There is also information on companies that provide\nother Linux-related products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be honest the best place to look at most all(?) of the distribrutions at once\nis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\/\">Disto Watch<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a copy of Linux is obviously an important part of the install. Technically, Linux is the kernel, so it isn&#8217;t all that big. You can download the latest kernel from many sites. However, if you want all the programs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-367","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}