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Comparison of Linux distributions
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Technical variations of Linux distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational differences may be motivated by historical reasons. Other criteria include security, including how quickly security upgrades are available; ease of package management; and number of packages available.
These tables compare each active and noteworthy distribution's latest stable release on wide-ranging objective criteria. It does not cover each operating system's subjective merits, branches marked as unstable or beta, nor compare Linux distributions with other operating systems.
Contents
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1 General
2 Technical
3 Instruction set architecture support
4 Package management and installation
5 Live media
6 Security features
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
General[edit]
Basic general information about the distributions: creator or producer, release date, the latest version, and such. References are not added here but can be found in respective articles.
Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation[1] are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column.
Distribution
Founder
Maintainer
Initial release year
Current stable version
Security updates (years)
Release date
System distribution commitment
Forked from
Target audience
Cost
Status
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux Team Alpine Linux Team 2006 3.7.0 ? 2017-11-30[2] X – security, lightweight, general Gratis Active
ALT Linux
ALT Linux Team ALT Linux Team, ALT Linux LLC 2001 7.0 ? 2013-07-10[3] X Mandriva Linux general, school Gratis Active
Antergos
Alexandre Filgueira Antergos Project 2012 Rolling Rolling Rolling X Arch Linux general Gratis Active
antiX
Anticapitalista Anticapitalista 2007 17 ? 2017-08-24[4] X Debian - MEPIS old computers Some editions are gratis Active
ArchBang
Willensky Aristide Stan McLaren 2010 Rolling Rolling ? X Arch Linux general Gratis Active
Arch Linux
Judd Vinet dev team 2002 Rolling Rolling Rolling X – general Gratis Active
BLAG
Brixton Linux Action Group Brixton Linux Action Group 2002 140k ? 2011-05-04 100% Free: GNU FSDG Fedora desktop Gratis Inactive
Bodhi Linux
Bodhi Linux Team Bodhi Linux Team 2011 4.4.0[5] ? 2017-05-31 X Debian, Ubuntu desktop Gratis Active
Canaima
CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community 2007 5.0 ? 2016-12-19 X Debian, Ubuntu Government of Venezuela Gratis Active
CentOS
CentOS Project CentOS Project 2003 7.4-1708 10 years 2016-12-12 X Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation Gratis Active
Chakra
Jan Mette and Arch Linux KDEmod developers The Chakra Project Team 2010 Rolling Rolling ? X Arch Linux[6] desktop Gratis Active
Chromium OS
Google ? 2009 Rolling Rolling Rolling X Chrome OS web applications Gratis Active
ClearOS
Peter Baldwin ClearFoundation 2000 7.3.0 ? 2017-03-04 X RHEL, CentOS server, gateway, network Some editions are gratis Active
CrunchBang Linux
Philip Newborough Philip Newborough 2008 11 ? 2013-05-06[7] X Debian desktop Gratis Inactive
Damn Small Linux
John Andrews dev team 2003 4.4.10 ? 2008-11-18[8] X Debian, Knoppix lightweight, portable Gratis Active
Debian
Ian Murdock Debian Project 1993 9.3 ~3 years[g 1] 2017-10-07 Debian Social Contract and DFSG (main is 100% free, non-free packages are optional)[9] – general, server, desktop Gratis Active
Debian Edu
Debian Project 2004 8.0+edu0 ~3 years[g 1] 2016-07-03[10] Debian Social Contract and DFSG – schools Gratis Active
Devuan
The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA) The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA) 2016 1.0.0 ? 2017-05-25 ? Debian general Gratis Active
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Matias A. Fonzo Matias A. Fonzo 2009 2.2 ? 2012-04-21 100% Free: GNU FSDG Independent, inspired from Slackware general Gratis Active
dyne:bolic
Jaromil Jaromil 2005 3.0.0 ? 2011-09-08 100% Free: GNU FSDG Debian multimedia Gratis Inactive
Elementary OS
Daniel Foré elementary 2011 0.4.1 ? 2017-05-17[11] X Ubuntu, Debian general Gratis Active
ELinOS
SYSGO SYSGO 1999 ? 6.1 2016-07-06[12] X – embedded systems Partial Active
Emdebian Grip
Embedded Debian Project Embedded Debian Project 2009 3.1 End-of-life 2013-06-15 X Debian embedded systems Gratis Inactive
Fedora
Fedora Project Fedora Project 2003 27 ? 2017-11-14 Fedora Licensing Guidelines[13] – general Gratis Active
Freespire
Lindows.com, Inc. Linspire, Inc. 2002 2.0.8 ? 2007-11-30 X Debian desktop Gratis Inactive
Gentoo Linux
Daniel Robbins Gentoo Foundation, Inc. 2002 Rolling Rolling ? Gentoo Social Contract – general Gratis Active
Guix System Distribution
Ludovic Courtès Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus, the Guix community 2012 0.14.0 Rolling 2017-12-07[14] 100% Free: GNU FSDG – general Gratis Active
gNewSense
Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the FSF 2006 4.0 (Ucclia) ? 2016-05-02[15] 100% Free: GNU FSDG Debian general, server Gratis Active
gnuLinEx
Regional Government of Extremadura dev team 2002 LinEx 2013 ? 11 February 2013 X Debian desktop Gratis Inactive
Grml
Michael Prokop The Grml Team 2005 2017.05 ? 2017-05-31 X Debian live, maintenance, security, network, forensic, accessibility Gratis Active
Instant WebKiosk
Marco Buratto Binary Emotions 2012 16.0 ? 2017-04-05[16] X Debian web kiosks, digital signage, personal web navigation Gratis Active
Kali Linux
Max Moser, Mati Aharoni, Martin J. Muench Remote-Exploit 2013 2017.3 ? 2017-11-21[17] X Debian auditing, forensic, security, network Gratis Active
Knoppix
Klaus Knopper dev team 2000 8.1 ? 2017-09-27[18] X Debian live Gratis Active
Kodibuntu
The XBMC Project Team Kodi 2008 ? ? ? X Debian, Ubuntu multimedia Gratis Active
Korora
Chris Smart Dev Team 2005 26 ? 2017-09-16[19] X Fedora desktop Gratis Active
LibreCMC
LibreCMC team LibreCMC team 2010 1.4.1 ? 2017-10-07 100% Free: GNU FSDG Merged from LibreWRT embedded systems Gratis Active
Linspire
Linspire, Inc. Linspire, Inc. 2001 ? ? ? X Ubuntu ? Commercial[20] Inactive
Linux Mint
Clement Lefebvre dev team 2006 18.3 ~3 years (LMDE); 5 years (main editions) 2017-11-27 X Debian, Ubuntu desktop Gratis Active
Linux Lite
Jerry Bezencon Linux Lite Team 2012 3.6 ? 2017-09-01 X Ubuntu desktop Gratis Active
Mageia
Mageia Community mageia.org 2010 6 1 2017-07-16[21] X Mandriva Linux general Gratis Active
Mandriva Linux
Mandrakesoft S.A. Mandriva S.A. 1998 2011 ? 2011-08-28 X Red Hat Linux general Some editions are gratis Inactive
Manjaro Linux
Roland Singer dev team 2012[22] Rolling Rolling Rolling X Arch Linux general Gratis Active
MEPIS
Warren Woodford MEPIS LLC 2003 ? ? ? X Debian desktop, server Gratis Inactive
Musix GNU+Linux
Musix team Musix team 2008 3.0.1 ? 2014-03-13 100% Free: GNU FSDG Debian multimedia Gratis Active
Netrunner
Blue Systems dev team 2009 17.06 ? 2017-07-01 X Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu desktop Gratis Active
NixOS
Eelco Dolstra and Armijn Hemel NixOS Foundation 2003 17.09 6 months 2017-10-02 X None General, Server, Desktop Gratis Active
Novell Open Enterprise Server
Novell Novell, Inc. dev team 2003 ? ? ? X SUSE Linux Enterprise Server server Commercial[23] Active
OpenELEC
Stephan Raue, OpenELEC Team OpenELEC Team 2011 8.0.4 ? 2017-06-04 X – multimedia Gratis Active
openSUSE
SUSE Linux, Novell openSUSE Project 2006 42.3 3 years[24] 2017-07-26 X – general, desktop Gratis Active
OpenWrt
? OpenWrt team 2007 15.05.1 ? 2017-03-16 X – embedded systems Gratis ?
Oracle Linux
Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation 2006 7.4 ? 2017-08-08 X Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server Gratis Active
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Parabola Hackers Parabola Hackers 2009 Rolling Rolling 2017-05-28[25] 100% Free: GNU FSDG followed in Parabola Social Contract Arch Linux general Gratis Active
Pardus
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) TÜBİTAK 2005 5 ? 2015-04-25 X – general Gratis ?
Parsix
Alan Baghumian Parsix Project 2005 8.15 ? 2017-01-25 X Debian desktop Gratis Inactive
PCLinuxOS
Bill Reynolds dev team 2003 2017.04[26] Semi-rolling 2017-04-02 X PCLinuxOS desktop Gratis Active
Pentoo
Michael Zanetta, Rick Farina, Jens Pranaitis Pentoo 2005 2015.0 RC4.6 ? 2015-12-02 X Gentoo Linux auditing, security Gratis Active
Porteus
Fanthom Porteus 2010 3.2.2 ? 2016-12-29 X Slackware lightweight, portable Gratis ?
Puppy Linux
Barry Kauler Puppy Foundation 2003 6.3.2 ? 2016-06-22 X – lightweight, portable Gratis Active
Qubes OS
Joanna Rutkowska Invisible Things Lab 2012 3.2 ? 2016-09-29[27] X Xen and Fedora Security by Compartmentalization, desktop Gratis Active
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Red Hat 2002 7.4 ? 2017-08-01 X Red Hat Linux, Fedora server, workstation Commercial[28][29] Active
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Red Hat 1995 9 ? 2003-03-31 X – server, workstation Gratis Inactive
Rocks Cluster Distribution
UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp 2000 7.0 ? 2015-12-01 X Red Hat Linux server, workstation Gratis Active
Sabayon Linux
Fabio Erculiani dev team 2005 17.12 ? 2017-11-29[30] X Gentoo Linux general Gratis Active
Salix OS
Cyrille Pontvieux, George Vlahavas, Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix team 2009 14.2 ? 2016-08-29 X Slackware general Gratis ?
Scientific Linux
CERN, Fermilab dev team 2004 7.4 ? 2017-10-02 X Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation Gratis Active
Slackware
Patrick Volkerding dev team 1993 14.2[31] ? 2016-06-30 X Softlanding Linux System (SLS) general Gratis Active
Slax
Tomas Matejicek Tomas Matejicek 2002 9.2.1 ? 2017-11-16[32] X Slackware live Gratis Active
SliTaz GNU/Linux
Christophe Lincoln dev team 2008 Rolling Rolling 2017-12-03 X – portable Gratis Active
SolydXK
Arjen Balfoort dev team 2013 8.0 Debian packages as per Debian 2017-01-24 X Debian desktop Gratis Active
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Ryan Abrams, Eric Schabell dev team 2002 0.62-11 ? 2017-10-22 Source Mage Social Contract Sorcerer general Gratis Active
SteamOS
Valve Corporation Valve Corporation 2013 2.121 ? 2017-08-02 X Debian video games Gratis Active
SUSE Linux Enterprise
SUSE, Microfocus 2000 12SP3 ? 2017-09-07 X Slackware, Jurix workstation, server Commercial[33] Active
Tails
? Tails Development Team 2009 3.5 –[g 2] 2018-01-23 X Debian security-focused aimed for anonymity and privacy Gratis Active
Tiny Core Linux
Robert Shingledecker Team Tiny Core 2009 8.2 ? 2017-09-22 X Tiny Core Linux portable Gratis Active
Tor-ramdisk
Anthony G. Basile dev team 2008 20151215 ? 2015-12-15 X Gentoo Linux Embedded, uClibc Tor server Gratis Active
Trisquel GNU/Linux
Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) 2005 7.0 5 years[g 3] 2014-11-03 100% Free: GNU FSDG Ubuntu LTS desktop Gratis Active
TurnKey GNU/Linux
Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri TurnKey GNU/Linux Team 2008 14.1 Debian packages as per Debian; TurnKey packages for life of current major version (plus backports per request) 2016-04-15[34] Debian Social Contract and DFSG Debian server based software appliance library aiming to balance security and ease of use Gratis Active
Ubuntu and Derivatives[35]
Canonical Ltd. Canonical Ltd. 2004 17.10 Standard releases 9 months, LTS releases 5 years. Flavor LTS releases 3 or 5 years. 2017-10-19 X Debian general, server, desktop Gratis Active
Univention Corporate Server
Univention GmbH Univention GmbH 2004 4.2-3 ? 2017-11-28 X Debian (small business) server Commercial Active
Ututo
Diego Saravia, Daniel Olivera UTUTO dev team 2000 XS 2012 ? 2012-04-27 100% Free: GNU FSDG Ututo XS: Gentoo Linux, Ututo UL: Ubuntu general Gratis Active
VectorLinux
Robert S. Lange dev team 1999 7.1 ? 2015-06-27 X Slackware desktop Gratis ?
Void Linux
Juan Romero Pardines Juan RP and contributors 2008 Rolling Rolling 2017-10-07 X – general Gratis Active
Webconverger
Kai Hendry Webconverger Limited 2007 35.0 ? 2016-05-19 X Debian Kiosk software, digital signage Commercial Active
Xandros
Xandros Incorporated Xandros Incorporated 2001 ? ? 2007-07-26 X Corel Linux ? Commercial Inactive
Zentyal
eBox Technologies eBox Technologies 2005 5 ? 2016-11-29 X Debian, Ubuntu Small Business Server Some editions are gratis ?
Zenwalk
Jean-Philippe Guillemin dev team 2004 8.0[36] ? 2016-07-02 X Slackware general Gratis Active
Distribution
Founder
Maintainer
Initial release year
Current stable version
Security updates (years)
Release date
System distribution commitment
Forked from
Target audience
Cost
Status
^ Jump up to: a b Debian releases are officially supported for 1 year after the subsequent release, with releases being approximately 2 years apart. The Debian LTS Project provides community based support extending the complete support period to 5 years.
Jump up ^ All security updates are in new versions which are released every six weeks.
Jump up ^ for more information visit: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel
Technical[edit]
The table below shows the default file system, but many Linux distributions support some or all of ext2, ext3, ext4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, JFS, XFS, GFS2, OCFS2, and NILFS. It is possible to install Linux onto most of these file systems. The ext file systems, namely ext2, ext3, and ext4 are based on the original Linux file system.
File systems have been developed by companies to meet their specific needs, by hobbyists, or adapted from Unix, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. Linux has full support for XFS and JFS, FAT (the DOS file system), and HFS, the main file system for the Macintosh. Support for Microsoft Windows NT's NTFS file system has been developed and is now comparable with other native Unix file systems. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs' ISO 9660 and Universal Disk Format (UDF) are supported.
Unlike other operating systems, Linux and Unix allow any file system regardless of the medium it is stored on, whether that medium is a magnetic disk, an optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.), a USB flash memory key, or even contained within a file located on another file system. Similarly, many C compilers (mainly GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)), init systems (mainly sysvinit), desktop environments and window managers are widely supported.
Distribution
Default Linux kernel
Default file system
Default init system
Install-time desktop environment or window manager selection
Alpine Linux
Binary blobs ext4 openrc none
ALT Linux
Binary blobs ext3 systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces, Xfce
Arch Linux
Binary blobs[40] none[41] systemd none
BLAG
Linux-Libre ext3 sysvinit GNOME
Bodhi Linux
Binary blobs ext4 systemd Moksha (Enlightenment fork)
Canaima
Binary blobs[40] ? ? Cinnamon and MATE
CentOS
Binary blobs[40] xfs systemd GNOME
Chakra
Binary blobs ext4 systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces
ClearOS
Binary blobs ext3 ? none (Web based)
CoreOS
Binary blobs ext4 systemd None
CrunchBang Linux
Binary blobs ext4 sysvinit Openbox
Damn Small Linux
Binary blobs ext3 sysvinit JWM
Debian
By default Linux-libre, but the Debian Project also hosts a non-free repository allowing blobs to be installed optionally.[40] Built with Linux-Libre tools.[42] ext4 systemd GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE[43]
Devuan
? ext4 sysvinit Xfce
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Linux-Libre ext4 runit Xfce
dyne:bolic
Linux-Libre ? ? GNOME
Fedora
Binary blobs ext4 systemd GNOME (default Workstation Edition), Spins for: KDE Plasma Workspaces, Xfce, LXDE, MATE (with Compiz), Cinnamon, Sugar on a Stick
Funtoo
Binary blobs none openrc None
Gentoo
Binary blobs none openrc Awesome, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, KDE, LXDE-Meta, Openbox, XBMC and Xfce (live DVD)[44]
gNewSense
Debian Linux kernel, and (unlike Debian) blobs cannot be installed[42] ext3 sysvinit GNOME
gnuLinEx
Binary blobs ext2 ? GNOME
GuixSD
Linux-Libre btrfs, ext4 GNU Shepherd GNOME, Xfce, i3, ratpoison, xmonad
Instant WebKiosk
Binary blobs SquashFS ? Has no DE. It's a browser-only interface
Kali Linux
Binary blobs ext3 systemd GNOME
Knoppix
Binary blobs xfs microknoppix LXDE
LibreCMC[45]
Binary blobs ext4 busybox-init none
Linux Mint[46]
Binary blobs[40] ext4 systemd MATE, Cinnamon, KDE 4, XFCE
Mageia
Binary blobs ext4 systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME
Mandriva Linux
Binary blobs ext4 systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces
Manjaro Linux
Binary blobs none[47] systemd Xfce, KDE, GNOME [48]
MEPIS
Binary blobs ext3, ext4 sysvinit KDE Plasma Workspaces
Musix GNU+Linux[49]
Linux-Libre ext4 initscripts LXDE
OpenELEC
Binary blobs SquashFS shell script XBMC Media Center
openSUSE
Binary blobs btrfs systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME, Xfce
OpenWrt
Binary blobs overlayfs+SquashFS/JFFS2[50] procd[51] none
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Linux-Libre none openrc or systemd none
Pardus
Binary blobs ext4 ? KDE Plasma Workspaces
Parsix
Binary blobs ext4 systemd GNOME
PCLinuxOS
Binary blobs none sysvinit KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, Openbox
Pentoo
Binary blobs SquashFS openrc Enlightenment
Porteus
Binary blobs Squashfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT32, reiser, xfs sysvinit KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Openbox, Razor-qt
Puppy Linux
Binary blobs SquashFS containing ext2 busybox-init JWM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Binary blobs xfs systemd GNOME
Rxart Desktop
Binary blobs ext3 ? KDE Plasma Workspaces
Sabayon Linux
Binary blobs ext4[52] systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME
Scientific Linux
Binary blobs ext4 sysvinit, systemd[53] GNOME
Slackware
Binary blobs[40] ext4 BSD init scripts KDE Plasma Workspaces, Xfce, Fluxbox, Blackbox, twm
Slax
Binary blobs SquashFS sysvinit KDE Plasma Workspaces
SliTaz GNU/Linux
Binary blobs ext3 busybox-init Openbox
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Binary blobs ext2 simpleinit-msb none
SteamOS
Binary blobs ? ? Steam
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Binary blobs[40] ext3 systemd GNOME
Tails Vanilla Linux[40] ? systemd GNOME
Tor-ramdisk Binary blobs ext2 ? none
Trisquel
Linux-Libre ext4, xfs systemd GNOME, LXDE
TurnKey GNU/Linux
Binary blobs ext4 systemd none - headless server by design; provides Webmin for administration
Ubuntu/Edubuntu
Binary blobs[40] ext4[54] systemd Unity
Ubuntu GNOME
Binary blobs ext4 systemd GNOME 3
Ubuntu MATE
Binary blobs ext4 systemd MATE
Kubuntu
Binary blobs ext4[54] systemd KDE Plasma Workspaces
Xubuntu
Binary blobs ext4[54] systemd Xfce
Lubuntu
Binary blobs ext4 systemd LXDE
Ututo
Ututo XS (stable) is de-blobed with Linux-Libre tools.[55] Ututo UL (development) uses Linux-libre. Ututo UL means "Ubuntu-Libre" ext3 ? GNOME
VectorLinux
Binary blobs ReiserFS sysvinit KDE, Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfce
Void Linux
Binary blobs none runit none
Webconverger
Binary blobs gitfs sysvinit dwm enforcing a Browser-only interface
XBMC Live
Binary blobs ext3 systemd XBMC Media Center
Zentyal
Binary blobs ext4 ? LXDE
Zenwalk
Binary blobs ext4 sysvinit Xfce
Distribution
Default Linux kernel
Default file system
Default init system
Install-time desktop environment or window manager selection
Instruction set architecture support[edit]
Linux kernel portability to instruction set architectures other than x86, was an early feature added to the kernel.
Distribution
x86
x86-64
ia64
ppc[56]
ppc64
sparc32
sparc64
arm
hppa[57]
loongson
mips[58]
sh
s390
s390x
alpha[59]
m68k[60]
Alpine Linux
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Arch Linux
Discontinued
2017-11-08[61] Yes No Discontinued unofficial port No No No Yes
Unofficial[62] No In progress. Unofficial port[63] No No No No No No
BackTrack
Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux[64] Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux No No No No No Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux No No No No No No No No
BLAG
Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Bodhi Linux
Yes Yes No No No No No Discontinued
2013-10-23[65] No No No No No No No No
BOSS Linux
Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No ? No No No No No No No No
CentOS
AltArch Yes Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7[66] Beta, Discontinued
4.0 AltArch Beta
4.2[66][67] No AltArch No No No No Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7[66][68] Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7[66][68] Discontinued
4.2-4.3[66][69][70] No
Chakra
No Yes No No No No No ? No No No No No No No No
CRUX
Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No
Debian[71]
Yes Yes
4.0+ Discontinued
3.0-7.0[72] Discontinued
2.2-8 Yes Discontinued
2.1-4.0[73] Discontinued
-7[74] Yes
2.2+ Discontinued
3.0-5.0 Yes Yes
3.0+ In progress Discontinued
3.0-7 Yes
7+ Discontinued
2.1-5.0 Discontinued
2.0-3.1
Devuan
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
dyne:bolic
Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Fedora[75]
Yes Yes Discontinued from
Fedora 9
[76] Discontinued from
Fedora 17
Yes No Inactive from
Fedora 12[77] Yes[78] No In progress Inactive from
Fedora 13
[79] No No Yes No No
Finnix
Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
Gentoo[80]
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[81] Yes Yes[82] Yes[83][84] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gNewSense
Yes Yes No No No No No No No Yes Yes No No No No No
GuixSD[85]
Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Kali Linux
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
LibreCMC
No No No No No No No No No No Yes XBurst No No No No No
Manjaro Linux
Yes
Unofficial[86] Yes No No No No No Yes
Unofficial[87] No No No No No No No No
MEPIS
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Musix GNU+Linux
Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
OpenELEC
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
openSUSE[88]
Discontinued
42.1 Yes No No[89] No[89] No partial[90] partial[91] No No No No No No No No
OpenWrt[92]
Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No
Oracle Linux[93]
Yes Yes Discontinued
5[94] No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes[95][96] No Yes Yes No No No No No
Red Flag Linux
Discontinued
8.0[97] Discontinued
8.0[97] Discontinued
3[98] No Discontinued
3[98] No No No No No No No No No No No
Red Hat Linux[99]
Discontinued
9.0 No Discontinued
7.1-7.2 Test release
5.1[100] No Discontinued
4.0-4.2
5.1-6.2 Test release
5.1[100] No No No Test release
5.1[100] No Discontinued
7.2 Yes Discontinued
2.1-7.1 Test release
5.1[100]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux[101]
Discontinued
2.1-6[102] Yes
3+ Discontinued
2.1-5[103] Yes
3+ Yes
3+ No No No No No No No Discontinued
3-4[104] Yes
3+ No No
Sabayon Linux
Discontinued Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Scientific Linux
Yes Yes Discontinued
3-4 No No No No No No No No No No No No No
SHR
No No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Slackware
Yes Yes No No No Discontinued
?[105] No Yes No No No No Discontinued
?[106] Discontinued
?[106] Discontinued
8.1[107] No
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No ? No No No No No No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server[108]
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No AArch64 only[109] No No No No No Yes No No
Tor-ramdisk
Yes Yes[110] No No No No No No No No Yes[111] No No No No No
Trisquel GNU/Linux
Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
TurnKey GNU/Linux
Selected ISOs
available Yes No No No No No No - but under development by community No No No No No No No No
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu
Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes, including 64-bit ARMv8-A No No No No No No No No
Ututo
Yes Yes No No No No No No No In progress No No No No No No
Void Linux
Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
XBMCbuntu
Yes No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Yellow Dog Linux
No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
Distribution
x86
x86-64
ia64
ppc
ppc64
sparc32
sparc64
arm
hppa
loongson
mips
sh
s390
s390x
alpha
m68k
Package management and installation[edit]
Information on features in the distributions. Package numbers are only approximate (some distributions like Ubuntu tend to separate tools into different packages (usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug).
Distribution
Free software repositories
Approximate number of pre-compiled packages
Approximate number of source packages
Default package management tool(s)
Package format
Default installer
Graphical installation process
Netinstall
Netboot
Alpine Linux
Free, and nonfree 7003813500000000000♠8,135[112] apk .apk setup-alpine No ? ?
ALT Linux
Free, and nonfree 7003830000000000000♠8,300[113] APT (APT-RPM), RPM RPM Yes ? ?
Arch Linux
Free, and nonfree 7003889200000000000♠8,892[114] 7004432330889208892♠8,892+34,341 from ABS and AUR [115] Pacman .pkg.tar.xz None (install scripts only) No Yes iPXE
BLAG
Free only 7004100000000000000♠10,000[116] RPM, yum, APT RPM Yes No No
Bodhi Linux
Free, and nonfree 7004350000000000000♠35,000 APT .dpkg Ubiquity Yes ? ?
CentOS
Free, and nonfree 7004175650000000000♠17,565[117] RPM, yum/up2date RPM Anaconda Yes Yes ?
Chakra
Free, and nonfree 7003307400000000000♠3,074[118] 7003466300000000000♠CCR: 4,663[119] Pacman (will be replaced by Akabei in future) .pkg.tar.xz Package manager in development ? ?
ClearOS
Free, and nonfree RPM, yum RPM No ? ?
CrunchBang Linux
Free, and nonfree 7004230000000000000♠23,000 APT .deb Yes ? ?
Damn Small Linux
Free, and nonfree 7002610000000000000♠610 myDSL, APT .dsl, .tar.gz, .uci, .unc, .deb No ? ?
Debian
Free, and nonfree 7004572900000000000♠57,290[120] 7004210410000000000♠21,041[a] APT .deb Debian-Installer Yes Yes PXE
Devuan
Free, and nonfree ? ? APT .deb ? Yes Yes PXE
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Free only 484 pkgsystem .tlz ? No No No
dyne:bolic
Free only ? ? APT .deb Debian-Installer Yes No No
Fedora
Free, and nonfree 25,041[121] DNF, yum, PackageKit RPM Anaconda Yes Yes ?
Gentoo
Free, and nonfree 7002108000000000000♠108[122] 7004190920000000000♠19,092[123][b] Portage .ebuild, .tbz2 Yes[c] ? PXE
gNewSense
Free only ? ? APT .deb Debian-Installer Yes Yes No
gnuLinEx
Free, and nonfree 7002200000000000000♠200 APT .deb Yes ? ?
GuixSD
Free only 7003686800000000000♠6,868[124] 7003686800000000000♠6,868 Guix .scm, .go guix system init WIP[125] Yes No
Knoppix
Free, and nonfree 7003360000000000000♠3,600 APT .deb No ? ?
LibreCMC
Free only 826 ? ? No No No
Linux Mint
Free, and nonfree 7004507810000000000♠50,781 APT .deb Ubiquity Yes ? ?
Mageia
Free, and nonfree 7004172830000000000♠17,283 (i586), 7004114090000000000♠11,409 (x86-64)[126] 7003883400000000000♠8,834[127] urpmi, rpmdrake RPM DrakX Yes Yes ?
Mandriva Linux
Free, and nonfree 7004226000000000000♠22,600 urpmi, rpmdrake RPM DrakX Yes ? ?
Manjaro Linux
Free, and nonfree ? ? from AUR[115] Pacman .pkg.tar.xz Calamares[128] Yes[129] Yes iPXE
MEPIS
Free, and nonfree 7004200000000000000♠20,000 APT .deb MEPIS Install Yes ? ?
Musix GNU+Linux
Free only 1819 APT .deb Debian-Installer Yes No No
OpenELEC
Free, and nonfree 7002140000000000000♠140[130] XBMCbuntu addon manager, own and 3rd party addons .zip Yes ? ?
openSUSE
Free, and nonfree 7004693670000000000♠69,367 7004348910000000000♠34,891[131] YaST, Zypper RPM YaST Yes Yes ?
OpenWrt
Free, and nonfree 7003200000000000000♠2,000 opkg .ipk - No ? ?
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Free only 7004153520000000000♠15,352[132] ? Pacman .pkg.tar.xz None (install scripts only) No MIPS64 No
Pardus
Free, and nonfree 7003400000000000000♠4,000 PiSi .pisi YALI Yes ? ?
Parsix
Free, and nonfree 7004290000000000000♠29,000 7004149000000000000♠14,900 APT .deb Yes ? ?
PCLinuxOS
Free, and nonfree 7004120000000000000♠12,000 APT, RPM RPM Yes ? ?
Puppy
Free, and nonfree 7002700000000000000♠700 PupGet, DotPup .pup, .pet Yes ? ?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Free, and nonfree 7003300000000000000♠3,000 (plus 7003915500000000000♠9,155 from EPEL[133]) RPM, yum RPM Anaconda Yes ? ?
Rxart
Free, and nonfree 7003500000000000000♠5,000 APT .deb Yes ? ?
Sabayon Linux
Free, and nonfree >7004131300000000000♠13,130 Portage, Entropy ebuild, .tbz2 Calamares Yes ? ?
Scientific
Free, and nonfree APT/yum RPM Yes ? ?
Slackware
Free, and nonfree 7003229200000000000♠2,292 installpkg, upgradepkg tgz, .txz, .tlz, .tbz No Yes Yes
Slax
Free, and nonfree 7003205000000000000♠2,050 none .lzm ? ?
SliTaz GNU/Linux
Free, and nonfree 7003338100000000000♠3,381[134] Tazpkg .tazpkg tazinst Yes iPXE iPXE
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Free, and nonfree 7002118000000000000♠118 7003887600000000000♠8,876 Sorcery Package Manager src Yes ? ?
SUSE Linux
Free, and nonfree 7004240940000000000♠24,094 7004113850000000000♠11,385 YaST, Zypper RPM YaST Yes ? ?
Tiny Core Linux Free, and nonfree 7004251600000000000♠25,160 ab, tce-load tcz tc-install, core2usb Yes ? ?
Tiny SliTaz Free, and nonfree 7001500000000000000♠50 Web site[135] tazpkg No ? iPXE
Tor-ramdisk Free, and nonfree none none No ? ?
Trisquel
Free only 7004527480000000000♠52,748[136] ? APT .deb Ubiquity Yes Yes ?
TurnKey GNU/Linux
Free, and nonfree All of Debian's packages with ~30 custom packages All of Debian's packages (currently TurnKey only supplies source code for custom packages) APT .deb DI-Live (custom fork of Debian Installer) No No No
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu
Free, and nonfree 7004732290000000000♠73,229[137] 7004244740000000000♠24,474[d] APT .deb Ubiquity Yes Yes PXE
Ututo
Free only 7003500000000000000♠5,000 ? UTUTO Package Manager ebuild ? ? No No
Vector Linux
Free, and nonfree slapt-get, gslapt, installpkg tgz Yes ? ?
Void Linux
Free, nonfree and multilib 6,000 6,719 xbps .xbps ncurses script Yes Yes No
XBMC Live
Free, and nonfree APT .deb No ? ?
Zentyal
Free, and nonfree APT .deb dpkg Yes ? ?
Zenwalk
Free, and nonfree 7003200000000000000♠2,000 netpkg, installpkg, upgradepkg tgz, txz Yes ? ?
Distribution
Free software repositories
Approximate number of pre-compiled packages
Approximate number of source packages
Default package management tools
Package format
Default installer
Graphical installation process
Netinstall
Netboot
Live media[edit]
Distribution
Size of media (MB)
RAM use (MB)
Boots from CD
Boots from DVD
Installable live CD/DVD
Installable from USB
Arch Linux
7002742000000000000♠742 Yes Yes Yes Yes
AUSTRUMI
7002301000000000000♠301 Yes Yes Yes Yes
BLAG Linux and GNU
7002696000000000000♠696 ? Yes No ?
Bodhi Linux
7003102400000000000♠1,024 7001800000000000000♠80 Yes Yes Yes Yes
CentOS
7002603000000000000♠603 (Minimal) 7003409600000000000♠4,096 (DVD) Yes Yes Yes (installable since 6.0) Yes
Chakra
7003215000000000000♠2,150 No Yes Yes Yes
Debian
7002958000000000000♠958 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Devuan
7002868000000000000♠868
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
7002655000000000000♠655 ? Yes ? ? ?
dyne:bolic
7003165000000000000♠1,650 ? up to version 2.x Yes ? ?
Fedora
7003143400000000000♠1,434 7002256000000000000♠256 to 7003102400000000000♠1,024 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gentoo
7002260000000000000♠260 (Minimal) 7003204800000000000♠2,048 (Live DVD) up to 7002128000000000000♠128 Yes Yes Yes Yes
gNewSense[138]
7003120000000000000♠1,200 7002512000000000000♠512 ? ? Yes ?
Grml
7002460000000000000♠460 7001320000000000000♠32 to 7002128000000000000♠128 Yes No Yes Yes
Guix System Distribution[139]
7002228000000000000♠228 ? ? ? ? Yes
Knoppix CD
7002700000000000000♠700 7002128000000000000♠128 to 7002320000000000000♠320 Yes Yes Only DVD edition is maintained
Knoppix DVD
7003481300000000000♠4,813 7002128000000000000♠128 to 7002500000000000000♠500 No Yes
LibreCMC
? ? No No No No
Mandriva Linux One
7002700000000000000♠700 7002128000000000000♠128 to 7002768000000000000♠768 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manjaro Linux
7002473000000000000♠473 to 7003220000000000000♠2,200[140] 7002256000000000000♠256 to 7003102400000000000♠1,024 Yes Yes Yes Yes
MEPIS
7002700000000000000♠700 to 7003400000000000000♠4,000 7002128000000000000♠128 to 7002512000000000000♠512 Yes Yes Yes Yes
MCNLive
7002350000000000000♠350 Yes Yes
Musix GNU+Linux
7003200000000000000♠2,000 ? No Yes Yes Yes
Nanolinux
7001180000000000000♠18 7001640000000000000♠≈64 Yes Yes Yes Yes
openGEU
7002700000000000000♠700 7002192000000000000♠192 to 7002512000000000000♠512 Yes Yes
openSUSE (Not 42.1)
7002700000000000000♠700 7002128000000000000♠128 to 7002768000000000000♠768 Yes Yes Yes Yes
OpenWrt
7000400000000000000♠min 4 7001160000000000000♠min 16 No No No No
Oralux
7002500000000000000♠500 Yes Yes No longer updated
Parabola
7002531000000000000♠531 ? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Pardus
7003125600000000000♠1,256 to 7003127600000000000♠1,276 7002256000000000000♠256 to 7003102400000000000♠1,024 Yes Yes Yes Yes
PCLinuxOS
7002130000000000000♠130 to 7002700000000000000♠700 7001960000000000000♠96 to 7002512000000000000♠512 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Pentoo
7002666000000000000♠666 and 7002700000000000000♠700 7001480000000000000♠48 to 7001960000000000000♠96 Yes Yes By hand[141] By hand
Porteus
? ? Yes Yes
Puppy Linux (Slacko)
7002235000000000000♠235 7001320000000000000♠32 to 7002192000000000000♠192 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Puredyne
7002542000000000000♠542 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sabayon Linux Live CD
7002695000000000000♠695 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sabayon Linux Live DVD
7003240000000000000♠2,400 No Yes Yes Yes
Scientific Linux
7002431000000000000♠431 to 7003230000000000000♠2,300[142] 7002640000000000000♠640 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Slax
7002200000000000000♠200 7001960000000000000♠96 to 7002320000000000000♠320 Yes Yes Yes
SystemRescueCD
7002459000000000000♠459 Yes Yes Yes Yes
SliTaz GNU/Linux
7001350000000000000♠35 7001240000000000000♠24 to 7002192000000000000♠192 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Tails
7002900000000000000♠≈900 7003102400000000000♠≈1,024 No Yes Yes Yes (when run from DVD)
Tiny Core Linux
7001160000000000000♠16 7001460000000000000♠46 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Tiny SliTaz
7000144000000000000♠1.44 7000400000000000000♠4 Yes Yes By SliTaz By SliTaz
Tor-ramdisk 7000500000000000000♠5 7002256000000000000♠256 or >[143] Yes Yes Yes Yes
Trinity Rescue Kit
7002104000000000000♠104 Yes Yes
Trisquel
7003150000000000000♠1,500[144] 7002384000000000000♠384 Yes Yes Yes Yes
TurnKey GNU/Linux Core (base) appliance ISO
7002212000000000000♠212 7002173000000000000♠~173 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ubuntu
7003140000000000000♠1,400[145] 7002384000000000000♠384 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ututo
7003350000000000000♠3,500 ? No Yes Yes ?
Edubuntu
7003290000000000000♠2,900[146] Yes Yes Yes
Kubuntu
7003140000000000000♠1,400[147] 7002384000000000000♠384 Yes Yes Yes Yes
XBMC Live
7002700000000000000♠700 7002256000000000000♠256 to 7003102400000000000♠1,024 Yes No Yes Yes
Zentyal
7002600000000000000♠600 7002256000000000000♠256 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Xubuntu
7003120000000000000♠1,200[148] 7002256000000000000♠256 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Distribution
Size of media (MB)
RAM use (MB)
Boots from CD
Boots from DVD
Installable live CD/DVD
Installable from USB
Security features[edit]
Distribution
Compile time buffer checks
Mandatory access control
Software executable space protection
grsecurity
RSBAC
Alpine Linux
Yes[149] Unknown PaX Yes Unknown
BLAG
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Debian/Ubuntu
Yes SELinux, AppArmor PaX optional Optional Optional
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
dyne:bolic
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Fedora
Yes SELinux[150] Exec Shield[151] No No
Gentoo
Optional SELinux, AppArmor PaX optional Optional Optional
gNewSense
Unknown SELinux, AppArmor[e] Unknown Unknown Unknown
Guix System Distribution
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
LibreCMC
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Mandriva
Unknown AppArmor Unknown Unknown Yes
Musix GNU+Linux
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
SUSE Linux
Yes AppArmor[152] Hardware NX and other methods in mainline kernel and toolchain[153] No No
Tor-ramdisk
Unknown Unknown PaX Yes No
Trisquel
Unknown SELinux, AppArmor[f] Unknown Unknown Unknown
Ututo
Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
See also[edit]
Information technology portal
Software portal
Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
Comparison of operating systems
DistroWatch
List of Linux distributions
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ From the Sources.gz files in the main, contrib and non-free sections of Debian Jessie. On the 2015-11-21, Debian Sid, the development release, have 24757 source packages.
Jump up ^ Note this number is just of packages in the Official Gentoo Overlay (or Portage Tree). Several hundred other packages are available from other overlays
Jump up ^ Can be installed graphically (GTK+ and ncurses), but traditionally done by command line (install cd, live cd, netboot, and from distributions).
Jump up ^ From the Sources.gz files in the main,universe, multiverse and restricted sections of Ubuntu Wily.
Jump up ^ Based on Debian
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