Free red hat linux 8.0 software for linux

Red Hat Linux is probably the best-known Linux distribution. Red Hat Linux is well-supported by commercial software, and tends to be easy to install and have good hardware support out of the box.

Compaq has taken over the maintenance for Red Hat for their Alpha processor - theres a link to their Alpha Red Hat page below.

Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat will stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux distribution, "Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution, "The Fedora Project".

Fedora Linux brings you a powerful Linux operating system which is built from open source software. The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives.

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule.

The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.

Major Features:

1. Support for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture.
2. GCC 4.0
3. GNOME 2.10
4. KDE 3.4 includes new accessibility features. You can manage these new features in KDS Control CenterRegional & AccessibilityAccessibility.
5. Native Eclipse 3.1M6 (part of a free Java stack)
6. MySQL 4.1
7. PHP 5.0
8. Xen 2 (virtualization to run multiple versions of an OS)
9. GFS 6.1-0.pre22 (cluster file system)
10. Evince 0.2.1 (universal document viewer)
11. GDM 2.6 Includes early login capability
12. SELinux This release includes coverage for 80 new daemons by the targeted policy. There are changes to the handling of Booleans. The targeted policy is enabled by default.

Powered by Linux is a KDM theme created after a wallpaper of the same name. It was tested on KDE 3.5.6.

X/OS Linux is derived from the Free/Open Source rpm packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) under the requirements set forth by their trademark policy.

X/OS has spent considerable effort to avoid using Red Hats trademarks in any way that would imply an association with or sponsorship by Red Hat.

After some delay, the final release of X/OS Linux 4.0 is now available to the public.

The X/OS Linux team has spent considerable effort to assure the label enterprise-grade Linux for this milestone release. With the simultaneous availability of X/OS Linux 4.0 for x86 and x86_64 processor architectures, it delivers the latest “best-of-breed” Free and Open Source software for both 32- and 64-bit platforms.

Highlights include the 2.6 Linux kernel featuring numerous enhancements over the previous 2.4 version, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) to apply more granular security policies, improved storage capabilities supporting file systems of up to 8TB and more.

The Global File System (GFS) and Cluster Suite software is included in this release to ease the task of creating and managing advanced cluster configurations, and is available as an extra option during installation. This powerful set of tools provides seamless scalability of applications such as databases, web servers and high-performance computing clusters — with GFS enabling nodes to simultaneously read and write to a single shared filesystem.

Next to providing an advanced server platform, X/OS Linux 4.0 adds various enhancements to the desktop — increasing usability with greatly improved office productivity tools, plug-and-play USB device recognition and power management supporting the ACPI standard.

In addition to compatibility with the de facto distribution for deploying Linux in the enterprise, X/OS Linux strides to include various other useful packages and tools that conform to the standard for mature and robust “enterprise-grade” software. One example is Xfce, an extra option in addition to Gnome and KDE, offering a light-weight desktop environment suited for use on low-end or thin client systems.

With aLinux OS you only have to download alinux.iso LiveCD(burn to a 650 Mb CD-R or CD-RW and boot it). aLinux is a configured Linux OS that has a most spectacular Graphical Interface, in our words, the most astounding, versatile, usable & stable operating system today!
Especially made for those new to Linux, we believe this to be the most PROFESSIONAL, FASTEST and FUN distribution yet!. We believe our applications exceed SuSE, Red Hat, Corel, Slackware, Caldera, Mandrake, etc ...
We aim to please all user(s), expert(s) and newbie(s) alike who have already tried Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2K, XP, OS/2, BeOS even MacOS but want to gain the real experience for your PC!. aLinux OS at only 650+ Mb to download, comes jam packed with some of the most newest LINUX software available today!.
A 100% pure LINUX Glibc 3.3.4, Libc6 ELF system. The entire system when installed is less than 2 Gb! in our experience making it the fastest, convenient, operable and appealing Linux Operating System for your x86 PC.
Main features:
- Kernel 2.6.14
- PHP 5.0.5
- MySQL 5.0.15
- Xitami 2.5-c2 httpd/ftpd
- SSH 4.2p1 server/client
- Telnet 0.17 server/client
- VNC server/client
- RPC portmapper
- Xfprot 1.15 - 4.6.2 Antivirus Software
- KDE 3.4.3. KTTS - True Speech modules
- KOFFICE SUITE 1.4.2 - Simply beautiful!
- Quanta Plus for Web Development
- Aptget/Synaptic / Aptitude rpm-based pkg.mgmt.
- Xorg 6.8.3 20051120
- Firestarter Firewall
- Mozilla/Seamonkey 1.9a1
- Mplayer VideoMedia
- XMMS MultiMedia
- Games Galore
- The GIMP! 2.3 - Photoshop alternative
- Many More Gorgeous True Type Fonts!
- Addons - Gaim 2.0.0 - Webcam Edition supporting YaHOO!, MSN, AOL/AIM, ICQ, Jabber, etc.
- Gyach-Enhanced! The Ultimate YaHOO! Messenger with Voice/Webcam features.
Enhancements:
- The API was changed by updating to glibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1.1.
- Other updates include KDE 3.5.3 and KOffice 1.5.2. Xorg was removed and replaced with XFree86 4.6.0.
- The Linux kernel version is 2.6.17 with IVTV.
- A MultiMedia desktop was added for high definition users.

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum.
The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule.
The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases.
By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.
Main features:
- Support for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture.
- GCC 4.0
- GNOME 2.10
- KDE 3.4 includes new accessibility features. You can manage these new features in KDS Control CenterRegional & AccessibilityAccessibility.
- Native Eclipse 3.1M6 (part of a free Java stack)
- MySQL 4.1
- PHP 5.0
- Xen 2 (virtualization to run multiple versions of an OS)
- GFS 6.1-0.pre22 (cluster file system)
- Evince 0.2.1 (universal document viewer)
- GDM 2.6 - Includes early login capability
- SELinux This release includes coverage for 80 new daemons by the targeted policy. There are changes to the handling of Booleans. The targeted policy is enabled by default.

Berry Linux is a bootable CD Linux with automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.
Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or as a rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk, although this option is also available (it needs 1.2GB of hard disk space). Berry Linux is based on Red Hat Linux and Knoppix.
Main features:
- Support for Kernel-2.6. ALSA, ACPI, selinux.
- Overlay Filesystem Support.
- Berry Linux is not necessary to install. (Root partition is in the ramdisc using initrd, all commands are operated by being transfered from CD-ROM)
- Install without parting patitions on Windows to use install.bat. (Using cloop/loopback device)
- Its possible to install Berry Linux on hard disk. (Use Berry Linux Installer or Copy under /BERRY/, and set up LILO)
- Berry Linux can boot from USB-HDD/memory.
- Berry Linux uses WHIZ, a very sharp Kana-Kanji conversion system. (WHIZ Project)
- Automatically recognizes USB storage, and show icons.
- Berry Linux uses free Japanese True Type Fonts.
- Berry Linux uses bootsplash when booting.
- Berry Linux uses DHCP to connect the Network. (If youd like to use PPPoE, you should setting up it on the Terminal)
- Its possible to save personal setting.
- Red Hat Fedora compatible.
- Using new technologies.
- You can listen to mp3 using XMMS, and play DVD/DivX using MPlayer and XINE.
- You can edit files of Microsoft Word, Excel by OpenOffice.
Berry Linux Minis Features:
- Minimum Linux enviroment is available by using Berry Linux Mini.
- Its file size is very small. (148.0MB)
- Its light. Because of the Window Manager is Fluxbox.
- You can enjoy comfortable Linux enviroment.

DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium MMX 166 or so. Its focused on desktop usage.
DeLi Linux project includes email clients, graphical web browser, an office package with word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A full install, including XFree and development tools, needs not more than 250 MB of harddisk space.
The trick is, that DeLi Linux uses only "lightweight" alternative software. If you are looking for the newest KDE, GNOME or Mozilla, DeLi Linux will not make you happy. The test computer is a 486 laptop with 16 MB RAM, and all apps which comes with DeLi Linux are running smoothly.
"Why the heck make a Linux for such old crap ?" you may ask. There are still many computers around with the configuration mentioned above, it would be a shame to waste them. Many people simply cannot buy a 2 Ghz machine for 1000 $ or more, but they can buy a Pentium I 133 for 50 $ from ebay.
Many people are still happy with the computer they bought five years ago. Especially in the so-called third world, new hardware is not affordable. Well, theres still Windows95 or Windows 3.1, which will run on these machines, too. But these versions are not supported by MS anymore, they are no longer in production, and finally, you will not get any software for this old Windows version.
Enhancements:
- DeLi Linux 0.7.2 is the next and possibly the last release in the 0.7.x branch. DeLi Linux 0.7.2 have the following new features: Linux kernel 2.4.34.4; X.Org 7.2; a new default web browser, Konq-E (Konqueror Embedded) which has Javascript and CSS support; the pdq print system, which replaces lprng; improved and bug-fixed delisetup, deliget and netinstall; other new packages includes nano, Gutenprint, gv and xaw3d, and the new Liberation fonts from Red Hat.