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===Color Key===
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=== General Articles ===
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| style="background-color: lime" | [[GNU/Linux naming controversy]]
| An article on the controversy of the GNU/Linux name.
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| style="background-color: lime" | [[Linux]]
| History and information on the Linux Operating System.
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| style="background-color: lime" | [[Linux From Scratch]]
| A book about how to build Linux from its source.
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[List of Linux distributions]]
| A long list of many different distributions for Linux.
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[Linux International]]
| Information on Linux International.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Criticism of Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[History of Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[SCO-Linux controversies]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux adoption]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux Mark Institute]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux User Groups]]
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=== Core Low-level Software ===
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; [[Kernel space]]:
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!   Software   !! Description
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| style="background-color: lime" | [[Linux Kernel]]
| The [[kernel (operating system)|kernel]] of all Linux-based systems.
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Linux console]]
| A core system [[text user interface|TUI]].
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[Linux framebuffer]]
| A kernel interface to [[framebuffer]], also known as '''fbdev'''.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Loadable kernel module]]
| section on [[Loadable kernel module#Linux modules|Linux modules]].
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; [[User space]]:
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!   Software   !! Description
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Busybox]]
| The most used userspace environment for embedded Linux installations.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Dejagnu]]
| A testing suite used in most core Linux software.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GNU Binary Utilities]]
| Main tools used for object code manipulation and linking.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GNU C Library]]
| Main Linux distributions' backward-compatible C library.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GNU Compiler Collection]]
| The group of compilers used in compiling most of Linux distributions sources.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GNU Core Utilities]]
| Basic Unix-compatible GNU system packages. 
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=== Syscalls and Kernel Features ===
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[[:Category:Linux kernel features]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[epoll]]
| event notification system
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| style="background-color: seccomp" | [[seccomp]]
| process sandbox
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| style="background-color: procfs" | [[procfs]]
| /proc
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|  style="background-color: sysfs" | [[sysfs]]
| /sys
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=== Core Language Interpreters ===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Awk]]
| A tool for processing text based records. A basic block for all distributions.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Bash (Unix shell)|GNU Bash]]
| Core Unix shell in most Linux distributions.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Perl]]
| A language Heavily used in Linux distributions for text processing.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Python_%28programming_language%29|Python]]
| High level language that also enjoys heavy use in Linux distributions.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Sed]]
| Utility for parsing text files. It can be considered a language of its own.
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=== Technical Underpinnings ===
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Cairo (graphics)]]
| [[Rendering (computer graphics)|renders]] (in 2D) for [[GTK+]]/[[FLTK]]/[[GNUstep]]/[[WebKit]]/[[Gecko (software)|Firefox]] and others more
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Common Unix Printing System]]
| Modular [[Printer (computing)|printing]] system
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[deb (file format)]]
| Debian .deb package format
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Filesystem Hierarchy Standard]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Flatpak]]
| Universal [[package manager]] for [[Desktop metaphor|desktop]] applications.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Fstab]]
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[GStreamer]]
|  Multimedia [[Pipeline (computing)|pipeline]] for doing things with audio and video
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[GTK+]]
| [[Graphical control element|User interface library]] of [[GNOME]]/[[GNOME Shell]], [[Cinnamon (software)|Cinnamon]] and others
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Mesa 3D]]
| Userspace parts of the device drivers and OpenGL
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[PulseAudio]]
| Audio subsystem
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Snap (software)]]
| Universal [[package manager]] for Linux.
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix|VDPAU]]
| API for video acceleration, e.g. [[Unified Video Decoder|UVD]], [[Nvidia PureVideo|PureVideo]], [[Intel Quick Sync Video|Quick Sync Video]]
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Wayland (display server protocol)|Wayland]]
| An alternative to the X Window System
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| style="background-color: default" | [[X Window System]]
| Primary windowing system
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=== Desktop Environments / Window Managers ===
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!   Desktop Environment   !! Description
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Beryl (window manager)|Beryl]]
| A 3D window manager.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Blackbox]]/[[Fluxbox]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Cinnamon (user interface)]]
| A desktop environment made by the Linux Mint team based on gnome-shell and designed to have more customizability and functionality, as well as eye-candy, than gnome-shell.
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|[[COSMIC (desktop environment)|COSMIC]]
|Under-development desktop environment from [[System76]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Compiz]]
| A 3D Window manager
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Enlightenment (window manager)|Enlightenment]]
| A window manager.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GNOME]]
| (formerly GNU Network Object Model Environment) A desktop environment  
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Joe's Window Manager|JWM]]
| Lightweight window manager
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| style="background-color: default" | [[KDE]]
| (K Desktop Environment) a desktop environment
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| style="background-color: default" | [[LXDE]]
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| style="background-color: default" |[[MATE (desktop environment)]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Openbox]]
| A [[Blackbox]] style window manager.
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| style="background-color: pink" |[[Unity (user interface)]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Windowmaker]]
| A window manager that emulates [[NeXTstep]]'s look and feel
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Xfce]]
| A light weight desktop environment which began as a clone of Unix's CDE
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''See also'' [[X window manager]], [[Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments|Comparison of X Desktop Environments]], and [[Comparison of X window managers]]
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=== Applications ===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Blender (software)|Blender]]
| a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Bootsplash|Bootsplash]]
| kernel level splash screen implementation - superseded by splashy
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| style="background-color: default" | [[CNR (software)]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Emacs]]
| Non arguably one of the best editors in the world
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|style="background-color: default" | [[Envy (software)]]
| ATI/NVIDIA driver installation script
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|style="background-color: default" | [[Geany]]
| fast and lightweight editor / IDE, uses GTK+
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Gedit|Gedit]]
| GNOME-based Text Editor
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GIMP]] and [[ingimp]]
| Photoediting tool
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]]
| KDE-based Text Editor
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| style="background-color: default" | [[KBounce]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Kdenlive]]
| KDE Non-linear Video Editor 
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Kolf (computer game)|Kolf]]
| Computer Game.
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|style="background-color: default" | [[Ktorrent]]
| Bit torrent client
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|style="background-color: default" | [[Leafpad]]
| Lightweight editor with similar look to Notepad.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[nano]]
| A simple text editor that we do not have to argue about.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[NEdit]]
| A little-known graphical user interface-based editor with roots from the Motif project.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Pidgin (software) | Pidgin]]
| Instant Messenger.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GNU-based [[iTunes]] clone
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Splashy|Splashy]]
| advance user level splash screen implementation
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Usplash|usplash]]
| usplash userspace splash screen implementation
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]]
| Non arguably a [[Editor_war|better editor than emacs]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Wine (software) |Wine]]
| Wine stands for "'''W'''ine '''I'''s '''N'''ot an '''E'''mulator"
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''See also'' [[:Category: Linux software]]
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=== [[Linux Security Modules]] ===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Apparmor]] 
| An LSM adopted largely by Novell, OpenSuze and Ubuntu
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Selinux]]
| An LSM largely adopted by redhat-based distributions
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Simplified_Mandatory_Access_Control_Kernel|SMACK]] 
| A new LSM that aims for simplicity
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=== Distributions ===
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{{main|Linux distribution}}

==== General ====
*[[Comparison of Linux distributions]]

==== Base distributions ====
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Arch Linux]]
| A minimalist, rolling release distribution.
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| style="background-color: yellow" | [[Debian]]
| release every 2 years, stable, security holes are patched quickly, [https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=zaz 37000 packages]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]] 
| by [[Red Hat]], new release every 6 months, base for [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Knoppix]]
| "Live", i.e. use from optical disk without installing to hard disk
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux Mint]] / [[Linux Mint Debian Edition|LMDE]]
| pre-installed [[codec]]s that provide .mp3 and DVD playback; known for [[Cinnamon (software)|Cinnamon]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Mandriva Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[openSUSE]]
| known for [[YaST]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Puppy Linux]]
| minimalist approach
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Slackware]]
| A class apart distro on its own
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]]
| known for [[Ubuntu Software Center]], [[Unity (user interface)|Unity]]; infamous for [[Mir (software)|mir]]
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==== Other distributions ====
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Alpine Linux]]
|  Designed to be small, simple, and secure. It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC
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| style="background-color: default" | [[CentOS]]
| Free clone of RHEL, compiled from sources of RHEL without the redhat's proprietary stuff
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| style="background-color: default" | [[CAOS_Linux]]
| Free clone of RHEL, now discontinued.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[CrunchBang Linux]]
| Lightweight [[Debian]] distribution with [[Openbox]] or [[Xfce]] as the default [[Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments|Destop environments]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Dreamlinux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Dyne:bolic]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Freespire]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Gentoo Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[GoboLinux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Incognito (Linux)|Incognito]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Kubuntu]]
| KDE + ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu with KDE as default desktop
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linspire]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux Deepin]]
| Based on Ubuntu and tailored for Chinese users.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux Mint]]
| Based on Ubuntu
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux XP]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Lubuntu]]
| LXDE + ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu With LXDE as default desktop
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| style="background-color: default" | [[MEPIS]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Parsix GNU/Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Puppy Linux]]
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| style="background-color: pink" | [[Ubuntu (Linux distribution)|Ubuntu]] 
| (Note: This article was featured on the Main Page on [[August 5]], [[2006]])
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| style="background-color: default" | [[VA Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Vector Linux]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Xubuntu]]
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===Companies/Communities===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Canonical Ltd.]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Mandriva]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Novell]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[OpenSUSE]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Red Hat]]
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=== People/Icons ===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Adrian Bunk|Bunk, Adrian]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Alan Cox (computer programmer)|Cox, Alan]]
| Lead contributor for Linux  Kernel
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Ulrich Drepper|Drepper, Ulrich]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Matthias Ettrich|Ettrich, Matthias]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Larry_Ewing|Ewing, Larry]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Miguel de Icaza|de Icaza, Miguel]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Andrew Morton (computer programmer)|Morton, Andrew]]
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Mark Shuttleworth|Shuttleworth, Mark]]
| Ubuntu originated due to the efforts of this person
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linus Torvalds|Torvalds, Linus]]
| Creator / Author of LINUX kernel
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Tux]]
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=== Others ===
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| style="background-color: default" | [[MySQL]] 
| An open source database on Linux.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Linux Terminal Server Project]] 
| An add-on package.
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Fedora Project]]. 
| Maintainers of [[Fedora Core]].
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| style="background-color: default" | [[Comparison of netbooks]]
| Netbooks are the next major market for linux
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