En sammenligning av Linux-distribusjoner er en sammenligning som tar for seg forskjellig maskinvareutstyr og programvarepakker. Forskjellene i en organisasjons valgte distribusjon kan også motiveres av historiske årsaker. Andre kriterier inkluderer sikkerhet, hvor raskt sikkerhetsoppgraderinger er tilgjengelige, brukervennligheten til pakkesystemet og antall tilgjengelige programvarepakker.
Disse tabellene omfatter de siste versjonene av aktive og nevneverdige distribusjoner, men dekker ikke hvert operativsystems særpreg, betautgaver og testutgaver, og sammenligner heller ikke Linuxdistribusjoner med andre operativsystemer.
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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 are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column.
Distribusjon Grunnlegger Vedlikeholder Opprinnelig lansering Siste versjon Sikkerhetsoppdateringer Utgivelsesdato System distribution commitment Fork fra Målgruppe Kostnader Status Alpine Linux Alpine Linux Team Alpine Linux Team 2006 3.5.2 2017-03-02 – security, lightweight, general ALT Linux ALT Linux Team ALT Linux Team, ALT Linux LLC 2001 7.0 2013-07-10 Mandriva Linux general, school antiX Anticapitalista Anticapitalista 2007 15.1 2016-02-19 Debian - MEPIS old computers ArchBang Willensky Aristide Stan McLaren Rolling Rolling Arch Linux general Arch Linux Judd Vinet dev team Rolling Rolling – general BLAG Brixton Linux Action Group Brixton Linux Action Group 140k Fedora]] desktop Bodhi Linux Bodhi Linux Team Bodhi Linux Team 4.2.0 Debian, Ubuntu desktop Canaima CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community 5.0 Debian, Ubuntu Government of Venezuela CentOS CentOS Project CentOS Project 7.3-1611 10 years Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation Chakra Linux Jan Mette and Arch Linux KDEmod developers The Chakra Project Team Rolling Rolling Arch Linux desktop Chromium OS 2009 Chrome OS web applications ClearOS Peter Baldwin ClearFoundation 6.5.0 RHEL, CentOS server, gateway, network CrunchBang Linux Philip Newborough Philip Newborough 11 Debian desktop Damn Small Linux John Andrews dev team 4.4.10 Debian, Knoppix lightweight, portable Debian Ian Murdock Debian Project 8.8 ~3 years (main is 100% free, non-free packages are optional) – general, server, desktop Debian Edu Debian Project 8.0+edu0 ~3 years – schools Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre Matias A. Fonzo Matias A. Fonzo 2.2 Independent, inspired from Slackware general dyne:bolic Jaromil Jaromil 3.0.0 Debian multimedia Elementary OS Daniel Foré elementary 0.4.0 – general ELinOS SYSGO SYSGO – embedded systems Emdebian Grip Embedded Debian Project Embedded Debian Project 3.1 End-of-life Debian embedded systems Fedora Fedora Project Fedora Project 25 – general Freespire Lindows.com, Inc. Linspire, Inc. 2.0.8 Debian desktop Gentoo Linux Daniel Robbins Gentoo Foundation, Inc. Rolling Rolling – general Guix System Distribution Ludovic Courtès Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus, the Guix community 0.13.0 Rolling – general gNewSense Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the FSF 4.0 (Ucclia) Debian general, server gnuLinEx Regional Government of Extremadura dev team Debian desktop Grml Michael Prokop The Grml Team Debian live, maintenance, security, network, forensic, accessibility Instant WebKiosk Marco Buratto Binary Emotions 14.0 Debian web kiosks, digital signage, personal web navigation Kali Linux Max Moser, Mati Aharoni, Martin J. Muench Remote-Exploit 2.0 Debian auditing, forensic, security, network Knoppix Klaus Knopper dev team 7.6.0 Debian live Kodibuntu The XBMC Project Team Kodi Debian, Ubuntu multimedia Korora Chris Smart Dev Team 20 Fedora desktop LibreCMC LibreCMC team LibreCMC team 1.3 Merged from LibreWRT embedded systems Linspire Linspire, Inc. Linspire, Inc. Ubuntu Linux Mint Clement Lefebvre dev team 18 ~3 years (LMDE); 5 years (main editions) Debian, Ubuntu desktop Mageia Mageia Community mageia.org 5.1 1 Mandriva Linux general Mandriva Linux Mandrakesoft S.A. Mandriva S.A. 2011 Red Hat Linux general Manjaro Linux Roland Singer dev team Rolling Rolling Arch Linux general MEPIS Warren Woodford MEPIS LLC Debian desktop, server Musix GNU+Linux Musix team Musix team 3.0.1 Debian multimedia Netrunner Blue Systems dev team Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu desktop Novell Open Enterprise Server Novell Novell, Inc. dev team SUSE Linux Enterprise Server server OpenELEC Stephan Raue, OpenELEC Team OpenELEC Team – multimedia openSUSE SUSE Linux, Novell openSUSE Project 42.2 3 years – general, desktop OpenWrt OpenWrt team – embedded systems Oracle Linux Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation 2012 2014 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server Parabola GNU/Linux-libre Parabola Hackers Parabola Hackers Rolling Rolling Arch Linux general Pardus Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) TÜBİTAK – general Parsix Alan Baghumian Parsix Project Debian desktop PCLinuxOS Bill Reynolds dev team 2017.04 Semi-rolling PCLinuxOS desktop Pentoo Michael Zanetta, Rick Farina, Jens Pranaitis Pentoo 2015.0 RC4.6 Gentoo Linux auditing, security Porteus Fanthom Porteus Slackware lightweight, portable Puppy Linux Barry Kauler Puppy Foundation 6.3 – lightweight, portable Qubes OS Joanna Rutkowska Invisible Things Lab 3.2 Xen and Fedora Security by Compartmentalization, desktop Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Red Hat Red Hat 7.3 2016-11-03 Red Hat Linux, Fedora server, workstation Red Hat Linux Red Hat Red Hat 9 2003-03-31 – server, workstation Rocks Cluster Distribution UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp 6.2 2015-05-12 Red Hat Linux server, workstation Sabayon Linux Fabio Erculiani dev team 16.02 2016-01-29 Gentoo Linux general Salix OS Cyrille Pontvieux, George Vlahavas, Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix team Slackware general Scientific Linux CERN, Fermilab dev team 7.2 2016-02-05 Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation Slackware Patrick Volkerding dev team 14.2 2016-06-30 Softlanding Linux System (SLS) general Slax Tomas Matejicek Tomas Matejicek 7.0.8 2013-03-16 Slackware live SliTaz GNU/Linux Christophe Lincoln dev team 2.6.37 – portable SolydXK Arjen Balfoort dev team Debian desktop Source Mage Ryan Abrams, Eric Schabell dev team Sorcerer general SteamOS Valve Corporation Debian video games SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE, Microfocus 12SP2 2016-11-16 Slackware, Jurix workstation, server Tails Tails Development Team 2.12 – 2017-04-19 Debian security-focused aimed for anonymity and privacy Tiny Core Linux Robert Shingledecker Team Tiny Core Tiny Core Linux portable Tor-ramdisk Anthony G. Basile dev team 20151215 Gentoo Linux Embedded, uClibc Tor server Trisquel Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) 7.0 5 years Ubuntu LTS desktop TurnKey GNU/Linux Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri TurnKey GNU/Linux Team 14.1 Debian packages as per Debian; TurnKey packages for life of current major version (plus backports per request) Debian server based software appliance library aiming to balance security and ease of use Ubuntu og derivativer Canonical Ltd. Canonical Ltd. 17.04 Standard releases 9 months, LTS releases 5 years. Flavor LTS releases 3 or 5 years. Debian general, server, desktop Univention Corporate Server Univention GmbH Univention GmbH 3.2-2 Debian (small business) server Ututo Diego Saravia, Daniel Olivera UTUTO dev team XS 2012 Ututo XS: Gentoo Linux, Ututo UL: Ubuntu general VectorLinux Robert S. Lange dev team 7.1 2015-06-27 Slackware desktop Void Linux Juan Romero Pardines dev team Rolling – general Webconverger Kai Hendry Webconverger Limited 2007 34.0 2016-02-20 Debian Kiosk software, digital signage Xandros Xandros Incorporated Xandros Incorporated Corel Linux Zentyal eBox Technologies eBox Technologies 2005 Debian, Ubuntu Small Business Server Zenwalk Linux Jean-Philippe Guillemin dev team 2004 8.0 2016-07-02 Slackware general Distribution Founder Maintainer Initial release year Current stable version Security updates (years) Release date System distribution commitment Forked from Target audience Cost Status
Tekniske detaljer 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.