Check this presentation to business and technical people about Linux Distributions. There is an article outlining the same topics that can work as a transcript for this presentation.

The topics included are:

• What makes a Linux distributions to be what it is
• The ingredients for success and for market failure
• Core technologies inside a distribution
• Important points to consider when choosing “the best distribution”
• What “support” is, its importance, and what customers should really look for when considering comercial support for a Linux distribution
• High level comparation between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in flavor, standards adherence and stability
• Highlights on other non-comercial distributions as Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Slackware etc, and the weak-ecosystem ones as Mandriva, Ubuntu, etc
• Colorful details about how Linux distributions work with and package Open Source software
• The new generation of “semi”-comercial distributions

Availability:

• English presentation file in (ODF) format, also browseable in HTML
• Brazilian portuguese presentation file in (ODF) format, also browseable in HTML

Check also an interview I gave in a Linux World event (download) right after presenting this:

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