Operating System Experiences

UNIX Links

Solaris Enterprise System - All the infrastructure software you need for free !
Solaris - The only operating system used by three letter organisations that care about security: NSA, CIA etc.
News - Linux weekly news
Linux Magazine - Excellent news, tips, and free old articles.
Fedora GNU/Linux - My previous favourite GNU/Linux though you need to add multimedia support for MP3 NTFS etc. yourself.
Ubuntu - my current favourite OS: much friendlier, easier to install, and better than Windows XP.

Apple Mac OS X

If you were wondering about using an Apple Xserve or anything running MacOS X at the centre of your infrastructure, I would strongly advise against that idea.

GNU/Linux

Linux Distros

A good place to help you choose a UNIX distribution is Distro Watch with news and links. For me, Ubuntu seems to have the best of everything being small, current, using Gnome and apt but Fedora is also well supported and Knoppix seems to have the best range of hardware support and standard packages like Java and old machines.

Linux Multimedia links - you need all the help you can get

Linux Hardware

Generally Yahoo provides useful web searching and great financial data, but Google has a Linux specific page that helps getting support for odd bits of hardware.

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