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 right after presenting this:
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=3k&fullarticle=2013