Comparison of Linux distributions
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The many Linux distributions differ for various reasons including technical, organizational, and philosophical.
Technical variations include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational differences may be motivated by historical reasons. Philosophical differences may include what software is considered easier to use. Other criteria include security, including how quickly security upgrades are available; ease of package management; and number of binary packages available.
These tables compare each 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.
General
Basic general information about the distributions: creator or producer, release date and latest version, cost and license, and so forth.
| Creator | Producer | First Public Release (yyyy-MM-dd) | Based Distribution | Latest Stable Version | Release Date | Purpose | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aLinux | Jay Klepacs | Jay Klepacs | ? pre-1999-08-19 (1.1) | Red Hat Linux | 12.8 | 2006-11-08 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| ALT Linux | ALT Linux Team | ALT Linux Team | 2001-03-21 | Mandrake Linux | 3.0 | 2005-12-08 | desktop, workstation, server | |
| Annvix | Vincent Danen | Vincent Danen | 2003-11-? | Mandrake Linux | 1.2-RELEASE | 2006-02-23 | server | |
| Arch Linux | Judd Vinet | dev team | 2002-03-11 | none | 2007.05 | 2007-05-17 | desktop base | i686 optimized, very up to date, follows KISS |
| Ark Linux | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer | dev team | 2003-01-25 | none | 2006.1 | 2006-08-02 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| Arudius | Haidut | dev team | 2005-11-04 | none | 0.5 | 2006-02-06 | information assurance, security | |
| Asianux | Red Flag Linux, Miracle Linux, Haansoft Linux | dev team | 2004-06-? | RHEL | 2.0 | 2005-08-31 | workstation, server | |
| ATmission | AT Consultancy | dev team | 2004-12-09 | Fedora | 2.0-01 | 2005-09-26 | workstation, live CD, recovery | first distro with cowloop driver. |
| Aurox | Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z oo | Aurox Sp. z oo | 2002-09-? | Fedora | 12.0 | 2006-08-31 | general purpose | supports European languages |
| BLAG | Brixton Linux Action Group | Brixton Linux Action Group | 2002-10-22 | Fedora | 60001 | 2007-05-06 | desktop | |
| Blue Cat Linux | LynuxWorks | LynuxWorks | ? | none | 5.0 | ? | embedded, military | |
| Caixa Mágica | Daniel Neves José Guimarães Paulo Trezentos |
Caixa Mágica | 2000-10-28 | SUSE | 11 |
2006-11-15 | desktop, server | |
| CentOS | CentOS Project | CentOS Project | 2003-12-? | RHEL | 5.0 | 2007-04-12 | server | fully compatible with RHEL |
| CRUX | Per Liden | CRUX Linux community | 2001-01-20 | none | 2.3 | 2007-03-20 | desktop | i686 optimized, very up to date, follows KISS |
| Damn Small Linux | John Andrews | dev team | 2003-?-? | Knoppix | 3.0.1 | 2006-06-22 | general purpose | very small |
| DARKSTAR Linux | DARKSTAR Linux Project | DARKSTAR Linux Project | 2004-02-? | Slackware | 1.0-DOT3 | 2005-06-14 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| Debian GNU/Linux | Ian Murdock | Debian Project | 1993-08-? | none | 4.0 (etch) | 2007-04-08 | desktop, server | powerful package management, high security |
| DeLi Linux | Henry Jensen | Henry Jensen | 2002-10-? | none | 0.7.1 | 2006-10-17 | desktop | lightweight |
| DeMuDi | AGNULA | AGNULA | 2002-04-? | Debian | 1.2.1 | 2005-11-03 | producing audio, video | |
| dyne:bolic | Jaromil | Jaromil | 2001-06-? | none | 2.4.2 | 2007-03-09 | producing audio, video | |
| Elive | Thanatermesis | Thanatermesis | 2005-01-01 | Debian | 0.5 (Revolution) | 2006-09-22 | desktop | |
| EnGarde Secure Linux | Guardian Digital, Inc. | Guardian Digital, Inc. | 2001-?-? | none | 3.0.14 | 2007-05-07 | secure server | secure by default, secure remote administration GUI |
| Fedora | Fedora Project | Fedora Project | 2003-11-05 | Red Hat Linux | 7 | 2007-5-31 | general purpose | much unofficial support |
| Finnix | Ryan Finnie | Ryan Finnie | 2000-03-22 | Debian | 89.1 | 2007-04-13 | server administration | |
| Fox Linux | Dev team, supported by ILDN network | Dev team, supported by ILDN network | 2004-09-? | Fedora | 1.0 | 2005-12-26 | desktop | designed for ease of use, i686 optimized |
| Foresight Linux | Ken VanDine | dev team | 2004-12-? | rPath Linux | 1.3.0 | 2007-05-31 | desktop, workstation, gnome showcase | Official GNOME LiveCD (+ installable too) |
| Frugalware | Miklos Vajna | dev team | 2004-09-? | Slackware | 0.6 | 2007-03-22 | general purpose | designed for new and intermediate users |
| Gentoo | Daniel Robbins | Gentoo Foundation, Inc. | 2002-3-? | none | 2007.0 | 2007-05-07 | general purpose | source based |
| gNewSense | Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley | ? | ? | Ubuntu (6.06) | 1.1 | 2007-01-22 | desktop | |
| Gnoppix | Klaus Knopper | dev team | ? pre-2003-07-17 (0.4) | Knoppix | 2.12.b1 | 2005-09-07 | live CD | GNOME version of Knoppix |
| gnuLinEx | Regional Government of Extremadura | dev team | 2002-06-09 | Debian | 2006 | 2006-06-20 | desktop | designed for the school system of Extremadura, Spain |
| GoboLinux | Hisham Muhammad, Andre Detsch | dev team | 2002-06-? | none | 013 | 2005-11-03 | redesigned filesystem hierarchy | |
| ImpiLinux | Gauteng Linux Users Group | ImpiLinux (Pty) Ltd. | 2003-11-? | Ubuntu | 6.0.1 | 2006-01-31 | desktop | tailored to African users |
| Kanotix | Jörg Schirottke (Kano) | dev team | 2003-12-24 | Debian, Knoppix | 2005-4 | 2005-12-31 | up to date, good hardware detection | |
| Knoppix | Klaus Knopper | dev team | ? pre-2003-01-19 (3.1) | Debian | 5.1.1 | 2007-01-04 | live CD | designed for ease of use |
| Kurumin Linux | Carlos Morimoto | GuiadoHardware | 2003-01-? | Knoppix | 7.0 | 2007-02-21 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| Linspire | Lindows.com, Inc. | Linspire, Inc. | 2002-03-? | Debian | 5-1.427 | 2006-04-21 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| Freespire | Lindows.com, Inc. | Linspire, Inc. | 2002-03-? | Debian/Ubuntu(developing) | 1.00 | 2006-04-21 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| Linux Mint | Clement Lefebvre | dev team | 2006-08-27 | Ubuntu | 3.0 | 2007-5-30 | desktop | Ubuntu with a customized base system. |
| Lunar Linux | Chuck Mead, Lunar Penguin Project | dev team | 2002-03-? | Sorcerer | 1.6.0 | 2006-04-06 | desktop, workstation | source based |
| Lycoris Desktop/LX | Redmond Linux Corp. | Lycoris, Inc., Mandriva S.A. | 2001-25-? | Caldera OpenLinux | 1.4 | 2004-09-13 | designed for ease of use | |
| Mandriva Linux | Mandrakesoft S.A. | Mandriva S.A. | 1998-7-23 (5.1 (venice)) | Red Hat Linux | 2007.1 | 2007-04-17 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| MeNTOPPIX | Galuh Prasetyawan | Galuh Prasetyawan | 2006-3-30 (1.1 (malang)) | Debian, Knoppix | 1.3 | 2006-03-30 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| MontaVista | MontaVista | MontaVista | 1999 | MontaVista | 5.0 | March 2007 | embedded systems, real-time | optimized for embedded real-time systems, broad architecture and board support |
| SimplyMEPIS | Warren Woodford | MEPIS LLC. | 2003-09-05 | Ubuntu | 6.5 | 2007-04-04 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| SOHOServerMepis | workstation,server | designed for ease of use | ||||||
| Musix GNU+Linux | Marcos Guglielmetti | ? | ? | Knoppix | 0.99 | 2007-03-05 | producing audio | |
| NimbleX | Bogdan Radulescu | Bogdan Radulescu | 2005-12-? | Slackware | 2007 | 2006-12-25 | desktop | small |
| Nitix | Net Integration Technologies, Inc. | Net Integration Technologies, Inc. | 2001-?-? | none | 4.3.2a | 2006-10-18 | server | SMB / autonomic |
| OES-Linux | Novell | Novell | 2003 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | OES SP2 | 2006-05-? | server | adds Novell (NCP, eDirectory, etc.) services |
| OpenDevelop | OpenComputing Inc. | OpenComputing Inc. | 2006-09-03 | Slackware | 0.3.0RC2 | 2006-09-20 | development , desktop | fully optimized for development |
| Oz Enterprise | CafeLinux.org Labs | Oz Enterprise Developers | 2007-03-31 | rPath | 1.0 | 2007-05-27 | desktop | designed for ease of use, utilizes conary |
| Paipix | António Amorim | António Amorim | 2004 | Debian | 5.00 | 2006-03-13 | general purpose, science | has science-related applications: LaTeX, ROOT |
| Pardus | TUBITAK | TUBITAK | 2005 | none | 2007 | 2006-11-20 | general purpose | has own package manager, init system, configuration manager |
| Parsix | Alan Baghumian | Talar-e-Web | ? | Kanotix | 0.85 | 2006-06-19 | general purpose | supports Persian keyboards |
| PCLinuxOS | Texstar | dev team | 2003-11-? | Mandriva | 2007 | 2007-05-21 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| PLD Linux Distribution | PLD Linux Distribution | PLD Linux Distribution | 2002-11-19 | none | 2.0 | 2007-04-01 | desktop, administrators | relatively manual |
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | PixExcel | PixExcel | 2004-04-19 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 4.4 | 2006-08-15 | general purpose | fully compatible with RHEL |
| Puppy Linux | Barry Kauler | Puppy Foundation | 2002-07-12 (0.4) | none | 2.14 | 2007-02-20 [1] | desktop | total size is 96.1 to 39.9 MB |
| QiLinux | QiLinux team | QiLinux team | 2003-10-31 (1.0alpha2) | none | 2.0 | 2006-08-01 | desktop, server | |
| Red Flag Linux | Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NewMargin Venture Capital | Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. | 1999-09-20 | Red Hat Linux | 5.0 | 2005-11-11 | general purpose | |
| Red Hat Linux | Red Hat | split into 2 variations Fedora & Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 1995-05-13 (1.0) | ? | 9 (Shrike) | 2003-03-31 | server, workstation, mainframe | obsolete |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Red Hat & Fedora Project | Red Hat & Fedora Project | 2000-03-27 (RHL 6.2E (Zoot)) | Red Hat Linux | RHEL 5 | 2007-03-14 | business workstation, server, mainframe | |
| Rxart | Pixart SRL | Pixart SRL | 2000-03-? | Debian | 3-0 | 2006-04-16 | desktop, workstation, server | |
| SabayonLinux | lxnay Design | dev team | ? | Gentoo | 3.3 | 2007-03-15 | desktop | source-based, easy install, DVD has much software |
| Salocin Linux | Team Team VIR0S | dev team | ? | Salocin Linux | 0.1.18 | 2006-10-04 | desktop | source-based, easy install, Multiple versions |
| Sauver | Maulik Gordhandas | Maulik Gordhandas | 2006-01-01 | Slackware | 2.0 | 2007-06-05 | desktop, recovery | designed for ease of use |
| Scientific Linux | CERN, Fermilab | dev team | 2004-5-10 | RHL/RHEL | 4.4 (Beryllium) | 2006-10-09 | science | fully compatible with RHEL |
| Slackware | Patrick Volkerding | dev team | 1993-07-16 | SLS | 12.0 | 2007-07-02 | desktop, workstation, server | very stable, follows KISS |
| Slax | Tomas Matejicek | Tomas Matejicek | 2002-06-16 | Slackware | 1.5.1.8 | 2006-11-24 | general purpose live CD | released in several versions, bundling different software |
| Source Mage GNU/Linux | Ryan Abrams, Eric Schabell | dev team | 2002-06-? | Sorcerer | 0.9.6.3 | 2007-03-27 | general purpose | source based |
| StartCom Enterprise Linux | StartCom Ltd. | StartCom Ltd. | 2004-08-01 | RHEL | 4.0.3 | 2006-09-18 | server | RHEL compatible |
| StartCom MultiMedia Edition | StartCom Ltd. | StartCom Ltd. | 2004-08-01 | Fedora Core | 5.0.5 | 2006-06-12 | desktop, workstation, multimedia | recording, video, graphics manipulation, home entertainment |
| SUSE Linux | S.u.S.E. GmbH, SuSE, GmbH | Novell, Inc. dev team | 1994-03-? | Jurix | 10.2 | 2006-12-07 | business desktop, server | designed for ease of use |
| OpenSUSE | desktop | |||||||
| Symphony OS | Ryan Quinn | Ryan Quinn & Jason Spisak | ? | Debian | 2006-05 Beta | 2006-12-13 | desktop | designed for ease of use (relatively more analytically) |
| Trustix Secure Linux | Comodo Group, Inc. | Comodo Group, Inc. | 2000-02-? | Red Hat Linux | 3.0 | 2006-06-13 | server | secure |
| Ubuntu | Canonical Ltd. | Canonical Ltd. | 2004-10-20 | Debian | 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) | 2007-04-19 | desktop | designed for ease of use, large user base |
| Kubuntu | desktop | |||||||
| Xubuntu | desktop | light weight, designed for ease of use | ||||||
| Ubuntu Server Edition | server | designed for ease of use and administration | ||||||
| Edubuntu | computer lab | child-oriented, designed for ease of use and administration | ||||||
| Ultima Linux | Martin Ultima | Martin Ultima | 2005-03-18 | Slackware | 4 SP3 | 2005-11-06 | desktop | less streamlined |
| Ututo GNU/Linux | Diego Saravia, Daniel Olivera, Richard Stallman | UTUTO dev-team | 2000-?-? | Gentoo | 2006.0 | 2006-03-04 | general purpose | source based |
| Vector Linux | Robert S. Lange | dev team | 1999-?-? | Slackware | 5.8 SOHO | 2007-05-17 | desktop | designed for ease of use |
| Xandros Desktop OS | Xandros Corp. | Xandros, Inc. | 2002-10-22 | Corel | 4.0 | 2006-06-21 | desktop | GUI similar to Windows XP |
| Zenwalk | Jean-Philippe Guillemin | dev team | 2004-05-21 (as Minislack) | Slackware | 4.6.1 | 2007-06-06 | desktop, server | fully featured, small |
| Creator | Producer | First Public Release (yyyy-MM-dd) | Based Distribution | Latest Stable Version | Release Date | Purpose | Short description |
Legal
Information on legal aspects of the distributions.
Technical
Information on technical aspects of the distributions.
File system support
| ISO 9660 | UDF | ext2 | ext3 | ext4 | ReiserFS | Reiser4 | SquashFS | JFS | XFS | GFS | NFS | FAT12 | FAT16 | FAT32 | NTFS | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aLinux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| ALT Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||
| Annvix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Arch Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Ark Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Arudius | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Asianux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Aurox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| BLAG | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Caixa Mágica | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| CentOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| CRUX | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Damn Small Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| DARKSTAR Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Debian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| DeLi Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| DeMuDi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| dyne:bolic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Elive | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| EnGarde Secure Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Fedora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Finnix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Frugalware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Gentoo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | [1] |
| gnuLinEx | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| GoboLinux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| GNUSTEP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | UFS | |||||||||
| gNewSense | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| ImpiLinux | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Kanotix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Knoppix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Kurumin Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Linspire | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Linux Mint | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Lunar Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Lycoris Desktop/LX | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Mandriva Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| MEPIS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Musix | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| NimbleX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Nitix | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| OES-Linux | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| OpenDevelop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | |||||
| Paipix | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Pardus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Parsix | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| PCLinuxOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| PLD Linux Distribution | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Puppy Linux | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| QiLinux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Red Flag Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Rxart Desktop | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| SabayonLinux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Sauver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Scientific Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Slackware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Slax | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| Source Mage GNU/Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| SUSE Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Symphony OS | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Ubuntu Kubuntu Edubuntu Xubuntu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Ultima Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Ututo GNU/Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Vector Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Xandros Desktop OS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Zenwalk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| ISO 9660 | UDF | ext2 | ext3 | ext4 | ReiserFS | Reiser4 | SquashFS | JFS | XFS | GFS | NFS | FAT12 | FAT16 | FAT32 | NTFS | Other |
Architecture support
| Distribution | x86 | x86-64 | IA-64 | ppc | ppc64 | sparc32 | sparc64 | arm | hppa | mips | sh | s390 | s390x | alpha | 68k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aLinux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ALT Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Annvix | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Arch Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ark Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Arudius | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Asianux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Aurox | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| BLAG | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Blue Cat Linux | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Caixa Mágica | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| CentOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Damn Small Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DARKSTAR Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Debian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| DeLi Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DeMuDi | 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 |
| Elive | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| EnGarde Secure Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Fedora | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Finnix | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Frugalware | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Foresight Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Gentoo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| gnuLinEx | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| GoboLinux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| GNUSTEP | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ImpiLinux | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? |
| Kanotix | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Knoppix | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Kurumin Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Linspire | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Linux Mint | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Lunar Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Lycoris Desktop/LX | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mandriva Linux | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| MEPIS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | 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 |
| NimbleX | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Nitix | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| OES-Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| OpenDevelop | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Oz Enterprise | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Paipix | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pardus | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Parsix | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| PCLinuxOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| PLD Linux Distribution | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Puppy Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| QiLinux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Red Flag Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Rxart Desktop | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| SabayonLinux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Salocin Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Sauver | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Scientific Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Slackware | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Slax | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Source Mage GNU/Linux | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| SUSE Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Symphony OS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ubuntu Kubuntu Edubuntu Xubuntu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ultima Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| UTUTO GNU/Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Vector Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Xandros Desktop OS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 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 |
| Zenwalk | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Distribution | x86 | x86-64 | IA-64 | ppc | ppc64 | sparc32 | sparc64 | arm | hppa | mips | sh | s390 | s390x | alpha | 68k |
Features
Information on features in the distributions.
| Packages | GUI installation procedure | Default file manager | Default desktop environment | Default window manager | Default GUI styling | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aLinux | 1200 (about) | No | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Customised KDE (Windows XP-like) |
| ALT Linux | 8381 (as of Compact 3.0) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Arch Linux | 6000 (about) (more on the community-operated package repository AUR) | Yes[2] | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Ark Linux | 3500 (core) + 500 (contrib) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Arudius | over 150 security tools | No | Rox | Fluxbox | Fluxbox | Mac OS X |
| Asianux | ? | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | ReFind |
| Aurox | 3000 (about) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| BLAG | Over 9000 | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | blagCanyon |
| CentOS | 1499 (base), 95 (extras), 66 (plus) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Bluecurve |
| Damn Small | ? | No | emelFM | ? | Fluxbox | ? |
| DARKSTAR | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Debian | 18200 (about) | Yes | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| DeLi Linux | 150 (about) | No | Midnight Commander,XPlorer | none | IceWM | ? |
| DeMuDi | 875 (about) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | DeMuDi |
| dyne:bolic | ? | Yes | ROX | Xfce | Xfwm | XFCE "Alternative" |
| Elive | Around 400 from Elive + 19725 from Debian | Yes | Thunar/pcmanfs | Enlightenment 16 and 17 | Enlightenment | Customized |
| EnGarde Secure Linux | 500 (about) | Yes[2] | None-Midnight Commander optional | None | None | WebTool [3] |
| Fedora Core | 8017 + 3rd party repositories[3] | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | ClearLooks for GNOME Bluecurve for KDE |
| Finnix | 350 (about) | No | none (all optional) |
none | none | none |
| Frugalware | 3,000 (about) | Yes | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Foresight Linux | Over 15,000 (about) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Foresight |
| Gentoo | 12,000 (about) | Yes[4] | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Packages | GUI installation procedure | Default file manager | Default desktop environment | Default window manager | Default GUI styling | |
| gnuLinEx | 200 (about) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | LinEx |
| GoboLinux | 636 | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| GNUSTEP | 881 | No | GWorkspace | GNUstep | WindowMaker | NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP |
| ImpiLinux | ? | No | ? | KDE | kwin | ? |
| Kanotix | CD: 1000 (about) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Knoppix | CD: 1000 (about) DVD: 2600 (about) |
No | none (all optional) |
KDE | kwin | Keramik |
| Kurumin | ? | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Linspire | over 2200 | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Linspire's |
| Linux Mint | 19,500 (about) | Yes[5] | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Bianca |
| Lunar | 2,951 (as of November 22, 2006) |
Yes[2] | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Lycoris Desktop/LX | ? | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Lycoris' (Windows-esque). |
| Mandriva | 13,323[6] | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Ia Ora |
| MEPIS | 2,700 on the DVD + Ubuntu's repositories | Yes[7] | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Musix GNU+Linux | 1,300 (about) | Yes | konqueror | IceWM +rox | IceWM | Plastik |
| NimbleX | 500 (about) | No | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Nitix | ? | Yes | none | none | none | WebConfig |
| OpenDevelop | over 700 | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Paipix | 2,000 | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Pardus | over 1,600 | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Parsix | ???? | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Human |
| PCLinuxOS | 5025+ (Sept. 2006) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | PCLinuxOS Custom Theme |
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | 1500 (about) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Bluecurve |
| PLD Linux Distribution | 13,500 (about) | No[8] | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Puppy | 300 (about) | Yes | ROX-Filer | none | JWM | ? |
| Packages | GUI installation procedure | Default file manager | Default desktop environment | Default window manager | Default GUI styling | |
| QiLinux | 2,500 (about) | Yes[9] | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik |
| Red Flag | ? | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Red Flag (Windows XP-like) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 1,500 (about) | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Bluecurve |
| Rxart | 5,000 (about) (Pixart package) | Yes | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Rxart |
| SabayonLinux | 20,000 (about) (same as Gentoo) | Yes | Konqueror, others optional | KDE, others optional | kwin, others optional | ? |
| Salocin Linux | 9,240 (about) (depending on version) | Yes | Nautilus, others optional | GNOME, others optional | Metacity, others optional | ? |
| Sauver | ? | No | Konqueror | KDE | Kwin | Plastik |
| Scientific | ? | Yes | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Bluecurve |
| Slackware | 544 (22-12-2006) | Yes[2] | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Slax | 2045 (about) | no installation required | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Standard KDE 3.5 |
| Source Mage | 5,514 (2007-03-27) | Yes | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| SUSE | 22000 | Yes | Nautilus, Konqueror |
GNOME, KDE, Ximian Desktop (Enterprise Desktop/Server) |
Metacity, kwin |
SuSE Theme |
| Symphony OS | ? | Yes | ROX-filer | Mezzo | FVWM | ? |
| Ubuntu | 4,358 by default,[10] maximally 20,000 | Yes[5] | Nautilus | GNOME | Metacity | Human |
| Kubuntu | Yes[5] | Konqueror | KDE | kwin | Plastik | |
| Xubuntu | Yes[5] | Thunar | Xfce | Xfwm | ClearLooks | |
| Ultima | ? | Yes | Konqueror (optional) | KDE (and others, all optional) | Enlightenment (and others, all optional) | none (all optional) |
| UTUTO GNU/Linux | 5,000 (about) (optimized by architecture) | Yes[2] | Nautilus | GNOME (and others) | Metacity | UTUTO-Theme-Blue |
| Vector Linux | ? | Yes | Midnight Commander | none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
none (all optional) |
| Xandros Desktop OS | ? | Yes | Xandros File Manager | KDE | kwin | Xandros' |
| Zenwalk | ? | No | Thunar | Xfce | Xfwm | Xfce Default |
| Packages | GUI installation procedure | Default file manager | Default desktop environment | Default window manager | Default GUI styling |
Security features
| Distribution | AppArmor | Bounds Checking (HTB or Mudflap) [4] | ExecShield | grsecurity | PaX | RSBAC | SELinux | Systrace | FORTIFY_SOURCE [5] | ELF Data Hardening [6] | Restricted Kernel Memory access [7] | Smash Stack Protection
Buffer Overflow Detection Variable Reordering [8] |
Pointer Encryption [9] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| EnGarde Secure Linux | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Fedora | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Hardened Debian | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | |||||||||
| Hardened Gentoo | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | |||
| Lunar Linux | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | |||||
| Pardus | Yes | ||||||||||||
| PLD Linux Distribution | Yes | Optional | |||||||||||
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| SUSE Linux | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Mandriva | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Language support
Languages included in the distribution. Note that some languages will not have full support.
| Distribution | Mandarin | Arabic | Spanish | English | Hindi | Portuguese | Bengali | Russian | Japanese | German | French | Persian | Hebrew | Korean | Full lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aLinux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| ALT Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Annvix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Arch Linux | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [10] |
| Ark Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Arudius | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Asianux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Aurox | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| BLAG | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | [11] |
| Blue Cat Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Caixa Mágica | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| CentOS | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Damn Small Linux | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | [12] |
| DARKSTAR Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Debian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [13] |
| DeLi Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| DeMuDi | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| dyne:bolic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Elive | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| EnGarde Secure Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | [14] |
| Fedora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [15] |
| Finnix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Foresight Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [16] |
| Frugalware | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | [17] |
| Gentoo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [18] |
| GoboLinux | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [19] |
| GNUSTEP | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| ImpiLinux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| IndLinux | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Kanotix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Knoppix | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Kurumin Linux | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Linspire | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | [20] |
| Linux Mint | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Lunar Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [21] |
| Lycoris Desktop/LX | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Mandriva Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [22] | |
| MEPIS | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | [23] |
| Musix GNU+Linux | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [24] |
| NimbleX | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Nitix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| OES-Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| OpenDevelop | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Oz Enterprise | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Distribution | Mandarin | Arabic | Spanish | English | Hindi | Portuguese | Bengali | Russian | Japanese | German | French | Persian | Hebrew | Korean | Full lists |
| Paipix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Pardus | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | [25] |
| Parsix | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | [26] |
| PCLinuxOS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Pie Box Enterprise Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PLD Linux Distribution | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | [27] |
| Puppy Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| QiLinux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Red Flag Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [28] |
| Rxart Desktop | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| SabayonLinux | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [29](same as gentoo) |
| Salocin Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Sauver | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Scientific Linux | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Slackware | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Source Mage GNU/Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [30] |
| SUSE Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [31] | |
| Symphony OS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Ubuntu Kubuntu Edubuntu Xubuntu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [32] |
| Ultima Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| UTUTO GNU/Linux | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Vector Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Xandros Desktop OS | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Yellow Dog Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Zenwalk | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Distribution | Mandarin | Arabic | Spanish | English | Hindi | Portuguese | Bengali | Russian | Japanese | German | French | Persian | Hebrew | Korean | Full lists |
Notes
- ^ Supports any file system supported by current Linux kernel.
- ^ a b c d e Ncurses-based installation GUI.
- ^ Data for Fedora Core 6; 2242 packages in Core, 5775 in Extras
- ^ Can be installed graphically (GTK+ and ncurses), but traditionally done by command line (install cd, livecd, netboot, and from distributions). The GUI installer is currently in beta.
- ^ a b c d Installs from within a booted live CD session.
- ^ According to History of Mandrakelinux releases.
- ^ Installs from within a booted live CD session.
- ^ GUI instaler under development
- ^ Ncurses-based first stage and then KDE-based second stage installation GUI.
- ^ By default main and restricted repositories are enabled. Universe and multiverse repositories can be added.
See also
- List of Linux distributions
- Comparison of Linux LiveDistros
- Comparison of operating systems
- Comparison of file systems
External links
- Comparison of Linux Distibutions - A detailed comparison complete with statistics on market share.
- DistroWatch.com - Compares all significant Linux distributions in detail, and was a source for some information shown here.
- Easy Ubuntu Linux - Comparison between several major Linux distributions.
- LWN.net Linux Distribution List - A comprehensive list of hundreds of distributions, including historical ones.
- PolishLinux.org Compare distros - detailed comparison of Linux distributions
- Linux Distribution Guide from LinuxLinks.com