Note that the open source versions can also be purchased on CD-ROM,
which is a convenient way to get it. For Linux, there are multiple
vendors selling CD-ROMs
(e.g., RedHat, http://www.redhat.com/).
Other systems are over the horizon, in beta, or for teaching/research.
E.g., GNU's HURD
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/,
Tanenbaum's Minix
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html,
or Lucent/Bell Labs' Plan 9,
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/
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