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Commercial distributors of Linux include:

Canonical, LTD (makers of Ubuntu)

Novell (makers of SUSE)

Red Hat (makers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

Xandros, Inc (makers of Xandros)

Other distros include:

Debian

Fedora

Slackware

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