comparison of Linux distributions

! Founder

! Maintainer

! Initial release year

! Current stable version

! Security updates (years)

! Release date

! System distribution commitment

! Forked from

! Target audience

! Cost

! Status

| AlmaLinux OS Foundation

| AlmaLinux OS Foundation

| 2021

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q106601457|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 10 years{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.almalinux.org/#about|title=AlmaLinux Wiki | AlmaLinux Wiki|website=wiki.almalinux.org}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q106601457|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Alpine Linux Team

| Alpine Linux Team

| 2006

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q4033826|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q4033826|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| LEAF Project

| security, lightweight, general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| ALT Linux Team

| ALT Linux Team, ALT Linux LLC

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q1367557|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1367557|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Mandrake Linux

| general, school

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Anticapitalista

| Anticapitalista

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q3618804|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q3618804|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, MEPIS

| old computers

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Willensky Aristide

| Stan McLaren

| 2011

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Arch Linux (UKM Edition)

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Judd Vinet

| dev team

| 2002

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent, inspired from CRUX

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Brixton Linux Action Group

| Brixton Linux Action Group

| 2002

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q796216|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q796216|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Fedora

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Bodhi Linux Team

| Bodhi Linux Team

| 2011

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q832919|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q832919|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, Ubuntu

| desktop, lightweight

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community

| CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q1032439|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1032439|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, Ubuntu

| Government of Venezuela

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| CentOS Project

| CentOS Project

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q207542|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 10 years{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.centos.org/About|title=About - CentOS Wiki|website=wiki.centos.org|access-date=10 December 2019|archive-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230132447/https://wiki.centos.org/About|url-status=dead}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q207542|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| server, workstation

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| CentOS Project

| CentOS Project

| 2019

| 9{{Cite web|url=https://blog.centos.org/2021/12/introducing-centos-stream-9/|title=Introducing CentOS Stream 9|website=blog.centos.org }}

| 5 years{{Cite web|url=https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/|title=CentOS Stream|website=centos.org}}

| 2021-12-03

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| server, workstation

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Jan Mette and Arch Linux KDEmod developers

| The Chakra Project Team

| 2010

| Rolling

| Rolling

| 2017.10

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Arch Linux{{cite web|url=https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/199/Chakra-Linux|title=Choose Chakra|access-date=1 June 2020}}

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| q66

| Chimera Linux team

| 2021

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Sundar Pichai

| Google

| 2011

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q79531|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| Rolling

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q79531|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Gentoo Linux

| web applications

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Arjan van de Ven

| Intel

| 2015

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| container, server, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Peter Baldwin

| ClearFoundation

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2978754|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2978754|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| RHEL, CentOS

| server, gateway, network

| {{Partial|Some editions are free of charge}}

| {{site active}}

| Philip Newborough

| Philip Newborough

| 2008

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q11983|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q11983|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| John Andrews

| dev team

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q192546|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q192546|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, Knoppix

| lightweight, portable

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Ian Murdock

| Debian Project

| 1993

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q7715973|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| ~5 years, 10 years Freexian ELTS(paid)

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q7715973|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Partial|Debian Social Contract and DFSG}} (main was 100% free, till 2022,{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html | title = Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems | archive-date = November 2, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231102171742/https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html}}{{cite web | url = https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html | title = General Resolution: non-free firmware: results | access-date = 2023-11-02 | archive-date = November 2, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231102171923/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html}} non-free packages were optional){{cite web|url=https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-debian-join-forces-to-help-free-software-users-find-the-hardware-they-need|title=FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software|website=www.fsf.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-13}}

| Independent, inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS){{cite web|first=Ian A.|last=Murdock|title=NNTP Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested|url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6|date=16 August 1993|access-date=2007-08-17}}

| general, server, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

|

| Debian Project

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q7715973|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| ~3 years

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q7715973|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Partial|Debian Social Contract and DFSG}}

| Debian

| schools

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA)

| The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA)

| 2016

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q18601928|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q18601928|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd.

| Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd.

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q129145|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q129145|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Matias A. Fonzo

| Matias A. Fonzo

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q322659|P348}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q322659|P348|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Independent, inspired from Slackware

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Jaromil

| Jaromilx

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q309494|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q309494|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Debian

| multimedia

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Danielle Foré

| elementary LLC

| 2011

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q1321517|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1321517|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

|Ubuntu, Debian

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| SYSGO

| SYSGO

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q251031|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q251031|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| embedded systems

| {{partial}}

| {{site active}}

| Embedded Debian Project

| Embedded Debian Project

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q16971958|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| End-of-life

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q16971958|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| embedded systems

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Bryan Poerwoatmodjo

| EndeavourOS

| 2019

| Rolling

| {{dunno}}

| 2022-09-14

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Arch Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Fedora Project

| Fedora Project

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q48267|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 1 year + 1 month

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q48267|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Partial|Fedora Licensing Guidelines}}{{cite web|url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main|title=Licensing:Main - FedoraProject|publisher=Fedora Project|date=2017-08-11|access-date=2017-08-11}}

| Red Hat Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Lindows.com, Inc.

| PC/OpenSystems LLC

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2109608|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2109608|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| {{dunno}}

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Daniel Robbins

| Gentoo Foundation, Inc.

| 2002

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Partial|Gentoo Social Contract}}

| Enoch Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Ludovic Courtès

| Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus, the Guix community

| 2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q19597382|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| Rolling

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q19597382|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Independent, inspired by NixOS

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley

| Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation

| 2006

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q305901|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q305901|P348|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Debian

| general, server

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Michael Prokop

| The Grml Team

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q309531|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q309531|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| live, maintenance, security, network, forensic, accessibility

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Hyperbola Founders

| Hyperbola Founders

| 2017

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q59538357|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 3 years (stable), 5 years (old stable){{cite web|url=https://wiki.hyperbola.info/en:project:releases|title=Releases|publisher=Hyperbola Project|website=HyperWiki|access-date=29 March 2022}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q59538357|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{free|100% Free: GNU FSDG followed in Hyperbola Social Contract}}

| Arch Linux

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}{{cite web |last1=Larabel |first1=Michael |title=FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Switching Out The Linux Kernel For Hard Fork Of OpenBSD |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hyperbola-Linux-To-BSD |website=phoronix |access-date=22 January 2021}}

| Max Moser, Mati Aharoni, Martin J. Muench

| Offensive Security

| 2013

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q8364850|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q8364850|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| auditing, forensic, security, network

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Klaus Knopper

| dev team

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q102410|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q102410|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| live

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Chris Smart

| Dev Team

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q2705835|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2705835|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Fedora

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| LibreCMC team

| LibreCMC team

| 2010

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q16655648|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q16655648|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Merged from LibreWRT

| embedded systems

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Linspire, Inc.

| Linspire, Inc.

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q568234|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q568234|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{no|Commercial}}{{cite web|url=http://shop.linspire.com/shopping/shopping_cartcontents.php|title=青汁選びのパートナー｜カルシウム不足にコレ！～ユーグレナ青汁～|website=Shop.linspire.com|access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{site active}}

| Clement Lefebvre

| dev team

| 2006

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2027|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 5 years (main editions); ~3 years (LMDE)

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2027|P348|P548=Q15726348|P577}}
{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2027|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian (LMDE), Ubuntu (main editions)

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

|Jerry Bezencon

|Linux Lite Team

|2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q17620102|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q17620102|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

|Ubuntu

|desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Mageia Community

| mageia.org

| 2010

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1129541|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 1 year

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1129541|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Mandriva Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Mandrakesoft S.A.

| Mandriva S.A.

| 1998

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q173005|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q173005|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Linux

| general

| {{Partial|Some editions are free of charge}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Roland Singer

| dev team

| 2012{{cite web|url=https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=959229|title=Manjaro Linux Distribution|last=Singer|first=Roland (ying)|publisher=Community Contributions, Arch Linux Forums|date=2011-07-10|access-date=2015-12-12|quote=Hi all, I am working now since a longer time on my arch linux livecd. It is called manjaro linux and uses the Desktop Environment Xfce. I uploaded a first testing livecd which is very experimental and many features are still missing. I would be thankful for any bugs reported,.... or if somebody wants to help and join the project he is always welcome.}}

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Arch Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Warren Woodford

| MEPIS LLC

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q823184|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q823184|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| desktop, server

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Cybertrust Japan

| Cybertrust Japan

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q840623|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 10 years

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q840623|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| server

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Musix team

| Musix team

| 2008

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2649553|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2649553|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Debian

| multimedia

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Blue Systems

| dev team

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1524661|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| as per Debian

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1524661|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Eelco Dolstra and Armijn Hemel

| NixOS Foundation

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q21998874|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 0.5 years

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q21998874|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| –

| general, server, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Novell

| Novell, Inc. dev team

| 2003

| 2023

| {{dunno}}

| 2022-10

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

| server

| {{no|Commercial}}{{cite web|url=https://www.suse.com/shop/server/|title=Shop Online: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server|website=SUSE.com|access-date=2020-02-26}}

| {{site active}}

| Stephan Raue, OpenELEC Team

| OpenELEC Team

| 2011

| 8.0.4

| {{dunno}}

| 2017-06-04

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Kodi

| multimedia

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| SUSE Linux

| openSUSE Project

| 2006

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q16691|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 1.5 years{{cite web |title=Lifetime |url=https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime|publisher=Lifetime|access-date=28 November 2015}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q16691|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Slackware, Jurix

| general, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| {{dunno}}

| OpenWrt team

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|edit|Q1140401|P348|P548=Q2804309}}{{cite web |url=https://openwrt.org/ |title=Welcome to the OpenWrt Project |website=OpenWrt|date=2023-06-09|access-date=2023-07-05}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1140401|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| embedded systems

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| OpenMandriva Association

| OpenMandriva Association

| 2013

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q15980209|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q15980209|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Mandriva Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Oracle Corporation

| Oracle Corporation

| 2006

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q46094|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q46094|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| server

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Parabola Hackers

| Parabola Hackers

| 2009

| Rolling{{cite web|url=https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola|title=Get Parabola|website=parabola.nu}}

| Rolling

| 2021-08-11{{cite web

| url = https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola

| title = Get Parabola

| website = Parabola project

}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG followed in Parabola Social Contract}}

| Arch Linux

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

| TÜBİTAK

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1325811|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1325811|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Gentoo (2011.2)
Debian

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra

| Parrot Dev Team

| 2013

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q19768087|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| Rolling

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q19768087|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| security, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Alan Baghumian

| Parsix Project

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2742192|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2742192|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Patrick Verner

| Parted Magic LLC.

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1650739|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1650739|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| live, maintenance

| {{no|Commercial}}{{cite web|url=https://partedmagic.com/store/|title=Parted Magic LLC - Store|website=partedmagic.com|access-date=2020-01-24}}

| {{site active}}

| Bill Reynolds

| dev team

| 2003

| 2022.12

| Semi-rolling

| 2022-12-12

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Mandriva Linux

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{Active}}

| Carl Ritchell

| System76

| 2017

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q81388644|P348|P548=Q15726348}}

| 2 years for LTS releases.

2–3 months after the next release for other releases.

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q81388644|P348|P548=Q15726348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Ubuntu

| desktop, laptop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{Active}}

| Michael Zanetta, Rick Farina, Jens Pranaitis

| Pentoo

| 2005

| 2019.1

| {{dunno}}

| 2019-01-17

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Gentoo Linux

| auditing, security

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Fanthom

| Porteus

| 2010

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q743909|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q743909|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Slackware

| lightweight, portable

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

|

| Libiquity

| 2011

| Rolling

| Rolling

| Rolling

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| {{dunno}}

| embedded

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Barry Kauler

| Puppy Foundation

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q240116|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q240116|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent, inspired from Vector linux

| lightweight, portable

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Todd Weaver

| Purism

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q13183457|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| Stable and Rolling

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q13183457|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Debian

| general, security, privacy

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Joanna Rutkowska

| Invisible Things Lab

| 2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q7269652|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q7269652|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Xen and Fedora

| security by compartmentalization, desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Red Hat

| Red Hat

| 2002

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q215273|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 12 years{{Cite web|url=https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata |title=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle |website=access.redhat.com |access-date=2023-05-22}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q215273|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Linux, Fedora

| general

| {{no|Commercial}}{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/rhel.html |title=Enterprise Linux |publisher=Red Hat |access-date=2016-11-12}}{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/desktop/ |title=Enterprise Linux Desktop Operating Systems |publisher=Red Hat |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{site active}}

| Red Hat

| Red Hat

| 1995

| {{wikidata|property|references|edit|Q220182|P348}} alias Shrike

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|single|raw|Q220182|P348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| –

| server, workstation

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp

| UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|references|edit|Q972850|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|single|raw|Q972850|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Linux

| server, workstation

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

|Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

|Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

|2021

|{{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q104102686|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

|10 years

|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q104102686|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

|{{Proprietary|X}}

|Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

|general

|{{free|None}}

|{{site active}}

| {{dunno}}

| LLC NTC IT ROSA

| 2011

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4048537|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q4048537|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Mandriva Linux|Mandriva

| server, general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Fabio Erculiani

| dev team

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|edit|Q640467|P348}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sabayon.org/release/latest-stable-release-sabayon-1903/|title=Sabayon 19.03 – New stable release|first=Sabayonlinux|last=crew|website=www.sabayon.org|date=31 March 2019|access-date=8 July 2019|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728191005/https://www.sabayon.org/release/latest-stable-release-sabayon-1903/|url-status=usurped}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q640467|P348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Gentoo Linux

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Cyrille Pontvieux, George Vlahavas, Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder

| Salix team

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q972574|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q972574|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Slackware

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| CERN, Fermilab

| dev team

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q839735|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q839735|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

| server, workstation

| {{free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Patrick Volkerding

| dev team

| 1993

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q58436|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q58436|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Softlanding Linux System (SLS)

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Tomas Matejicek

| Tomas Matejicek

| 2002

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q337503|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q337503|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, Slackware (until Slax 9)

| live

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Christophe Lincoln

| dev team

| 2008

| Rolling

| Rolling

| 2020-02-23{{Cite web|url=http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/|title = Index of /Iso/Rolling/}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent

| portable

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Ikey Doherty

| dev team

|2005

| Rolling

| Rolling

| 2021-07-11

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Pardus Linux

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Arjen Balfoort

| dev team

| 2013

| {{wikidata|property|edit|Q17082258|P348}}{{cite web|url=https://solydxk.com/news/solydxk-10-released-based-on-debian-buster-1|title=SolydXK 10 Buster released — English|website=solydxk.com|access-date=2019-09-30|archive-date=2019-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928183721/https://solydxk.com/news/solydxk-10-released-based-on-debian-buster-1|url-status=dead}}

| Debian packages as per Debian

| {{wikidata|qualifier|single|raw|Q17082258|P348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| {{dunno}}

| Sparky Linux team

| 2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q3896010|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q3896010|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| general, video games

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Ryan Abrams, Eric Schabell

| dev team

| 2002

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1196930|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1196930|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Partial|Source Mage Social Contract}}

| Sorcerer

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Valve

| Valve

| 2013

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q14944085|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q14944085|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian (2.0)
Arch Linux (3.0)

| video games

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| SUSE

| SUSE

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|reference|edit|Q1759786|P348|P548=Q2804309}}SP5{{cite web

| url = https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/20/suse_sle_15_sp5/

| title = Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing

| date = 20 June 2023

}}

| 13 years per version{{Cite web|url=https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/|title=Product Support Lifecycle | SUSE|website=www.suse.com}}

| 2023-06-20

| Common code base for x86-64, Power, System z, Arm64

| Slackware, Jurix

| edge, workstation, server, supercomputer

| {{no|Commercial}}{{cite web|url=https://suse.com/products/server/how-to-buy/|title=How To Buy - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server|publisher=SUSE|access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{site active}}

| {{dunno}}

| Tails Development Team

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q2801412|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| –

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2801412|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| security-focused aimed for anonymity and privacy

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Robert Shingledecker

| Team Tiny Core

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1151758|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1151758|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent, inspired from Damn Small Linux

| portable

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam)

| Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam)

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1588573|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| 3 years

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1588573|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html|title=List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation}}

| Ubuntu LTS

| desktop

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri

| TurnKey GNU/Linux Team

| 2008

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q7855626|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| Debian packages as per Debian; TurnKey packages for life of current major version (plus backports per request)

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q7855626|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Partial|Debian Social Contract and DFSG}}

| Debian

| server based software appliance library aiming to balance security and ease of use

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Canonical Ltd.

| Canonical Ltd.

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q381|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
{{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q381|P348|P548=Q15726348}}

| Standard releases 9 months, LTS releases 5 years. Flavor LTS releases 3 or 5 years. Ubuntu Pro 10 years.

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q381|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q381|P348|P548=Q15726348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| general, server, desktop, supercomputer, IBM mainframe

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Univention GmbH

| Univention GmbH

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|references|edit|Q301764|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| up to 6 months for free Core Edition; up to 7 years if maintenance is purchased, see:{{cite web |title=Prices and subscriptions |publisher=Univention |url=https://www.univention.com/products/prices-and-subscriptions/}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q301764|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| home, business, and school

| {{Free|Core Edition is free of charge}}

| {{site active}}

| Diego Saravia, Daniel Olivera

| UTUTO dev team

| 2000

| XS 2012

| {{dunno}}

| 2012-04-27

| {{Free|100% Free: GNU FSDG}}

| Ututo XS: Gentoo Linux, Ututo UL: Ubuntu

| general

| {{Free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Robert S. Lange

| dev team

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1074973|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q1074973|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Slackware

| desktop

| {{free|None}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Juan Romero Pardines

| Juan RP and contributors

| 2008

| Rolling

| Rolling

| 2022-10-17

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Independent, partially inspired by FreeBSD/NetBSD

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Kai Hendry

| Webconverger Limited

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2002261|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2002261|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian

| kiosk software, digital signage

| {{no|Commercial}}

| {{site inactive}}

| Xandros Incorporated

| Xandros Incorporated

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|references|edit|Q596710|P348}}

| {{dunno}}

| 2007-07-26

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Corel Linux

| {{dunno}}

| {{no|Commercial}}

| {{site inactive}}

| eBox Technologies

| eBox Technologies

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|reference|edit|Q191297|P348}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q191297|P348|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Debian, Ubuntu

| small business server

| {{Partial|Some editions are free of charge}}

| {{dunno}}

| Jean-Philippe Guillemin

| dev team

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q191317|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q191317|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Slackware

| general

| {{free|None}}

| {{site active}}

| Zorin Group

| Zorin Group

| 2009

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2625341|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|raw|Q2625341|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{Proprietary|X}}

| Ubuntu

| general, desktop

| {{Partial|Zorin OS Lite & Core are free, while Business and Ultimate are paid}}

| {{site active}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| openrc

| {{no2}} none

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/alpine/alpine.html|title=Reproducible alpine ?!|website=tests.reproducible-builds.org}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces, Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html|title=gnu.org|website=www.gnu.org}}

| none{{cite web|url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_systems#Create_a_file_system|title=File Systems|access-date=2022-06-03}}

| systemd

| Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, COSMIC, CuteFish, Deepin, Enlightenment, GNOME, Hyprland, i3, KDE, LXQt, MATE, Qtile, Sway, Xfce{{cite web|url=https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archinstall/-/tree/master/archinstall/default_profiles/desktops|website=gitlab.archlinux.org|title=Profiles in Archinstall}}

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://reproducible.archlinux.org/|title=Reproducible status|access-date=4 June 2023}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| ext3

| sysvinit

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| Moksha (Enlightenment fork)

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| {{dunno}}

| systemd

| GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| xfs

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| none

| dinit

| GNOME, KDE Plasma

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| GNOME

|

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| systemd

| {{No2}} none (Web based)

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| None

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| sysvinit

| Openbox

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| sysvinit

| JWM

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Linux-libre(debian) with separate non-free binary blobs hosted and sponsored.}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE{{cite web|url=http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/|title=Index of /debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd|access-date=2015-03-07}}

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds|title=ReproducibleBuilds - Debian Wiki|website=wiki.debian.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/757118/|title=Toward a fully reproducible Debian [LWN.net]|website=lwn.net}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| sysvinit

| Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| ext4

| runit

| Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| {{dunno}}

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| btrfs{{Cite web|date=2020-10-27|title=Fedora 33 is officially here!|url=https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-33/|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Fedora Magazine|language=en-US}}

| systemd

| GNOME (default Workstation Edition), Spins for: KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE (with Compiz), i3, LXQt, LXDE, Phosh, Sway and Budgie

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1976033|title=Reproducible Builds for Fedora|website=Red Hat Customer Portal}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| none

| openrc

| None

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|By default, there are no binary blobs in the kernel. Binary blobs can be installed, but the user must edit a file to accept any license.}} {{cite web|title=Going 100% Libre with Gentoo|url=https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Going_100%25_Libre_with_Gentoo#Allowing_only_Free_Software_to_be_installed_on_a_system|website=wiki.gentoo.org}}

| none

| openrc

| Awesome, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, KDE, LXDE-Meta, Openbox, XBMC and Xfce (live DVD){{cite web|title=Gentoo Linux Hybrid ISO|url=https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-889654.html|publisher=Gentoo Linux|access-date=4 June 2022}}

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre(debian), and (unlike Debian) blobs cannot be installed}}{{cite web|url=http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/packages-parkes/linux-2.6/view/head:/debian/README.gNewSense|title=/gnewsense/packages-parkes/linux-2.6 : contents of debian/README.gNewSense at revision 16|website=bzr.savannah.gnu.org}}

| ext3

| sysvinit

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre, Hurd (in progress)}}{{cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd/|title=A "Hello World" virtual machine running the Hurd|website=guix.gnu.org}}{{cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes//|title=Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes|website=guix.gnu.org}}

| ext4

| GNU Shepherd

| GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Enlightenment, Openbox, awesome, i3, ratpoison, EXWM

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00107.html|title=Quick reproducible test for GNU Guix|website=lists.gnu.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2017/reproducible-builds-a-status-update/|title=Reproducible builds: a status update — 2017 — Blog |website=guix.gnu.org}}

| {{free|Linux-libre}}

| none

| openrc{{cite web|title=End of systemd support|publisher=Hyperbola Project|date=2017-08-05|access-date=2018-12-07|url=https://www.hyperbola.info/news/end-of-systemd-support/}}

| {{no2|none}}

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| xfs

| microknoppix

| LXDE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| busybox-init

| {{No2}} none

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| MATE, Cinnamon, KDE 4, XFCE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| none{{cite web|url=https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Installation_Guides |title=Installation Guides - Manjaro Linux |website=Wiki.manjaro.org |date=2015-11-26 |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| systemd

| Xfce, KDE, GNOME{{cite web|url=https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/|title=Get Manjaro|publisher=Manjaro Linux|access-date=2018-02-03|archive-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909160202/https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/|url-status=dead}}

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| sysvinit

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| ext4

| initscripts

| LXDE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}} or Linux-libre{{cite web|url=https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware|title=NixOS Search}}

| none

| systemd

| GNOME or KDE Plasma (Default), CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightment, Kodi, Lumina, LXQt, MATE, Pantheon, Phosh, RetroArch, Xfce, Xterm. 40 window managers{{cite web | url=https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=services.xserver.windowManager | title=NixOS Search }}

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://reproducible.nixos.org/|title=NixOS Reproducible Builds|website=reproducible.nixos.org}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| SquashFS

| shell script

| XBMC Media Center

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| btrfs

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME, Xfce

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_Builds|title=openSUSE:Reproducible Builds - openSUSE Wiki|website=en.opensuse.org}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| overlayfs+SquashFS/JFFS2{{cite web|url=https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/filesystems |title=Filesystems [OpenWrt Wiki] |website=openwrt.org |date=2018-06-07 |access-date=2018-06-11}}

| procd{{cite web|url=https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/procd |title=What is procd? [OpenWrt Wiki] |website=openwrt.org |date=2018-03-04 |access-date=2018-06-11}}

| {{no2}} none

| {{no2|In progress}}{{Cite web|url=https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/openwrt/openwrt.html|title=Reproducible OpenWrt ?|website=tests.reproducible-builds.org}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| none

| openrc or systemd

| {{no2}} none

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| none

| sysvinit

| KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, Openbox

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| SquashFS

| openrc

| Enlightenment

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| {{dunno}}

| sysvinit

| KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Openbox, Razor-qt

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| SquashFS containing ext2

| busybox-init

| JWM

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre(debian). Binary blobs are not hosted and discouraged while can be manually installed.{{cite web |title=Compatibility |url=https://docs.puri.sm/Software/PureOS/Overview/Compatibility.html |website=PureOS Docs |publisher=Purism |access-date=14 March 2025}}}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| xfs

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| {{dunno}}

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4{{cite web|url=http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=16766|title=Sabayon Forums • View topic - Sabayon Linux 4.1 KDE: Stable release|website=forum.sabayonlinux.org|access-date=30 April 2009|archive-date=1 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901175446/http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=16766|url-status=dead}}

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces, GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

|sysvinit, systemdPrior to v7.0, Scientific Linux used sysvinit. Since v7.0, it uses systemd. {{cite web|url=https://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7.0/x86_64/release-notes/ | title=Scientific Linux 7.0 Release Notes | website=ScientificLinux.org |date=2014-10-14 |access-date=2016-12-27}}

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| {{dunno}}

| RC.d and sysvinit compatible

| KDE, XFCE Fluxbox, Blackbox, fvwm2 twm

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| SquashFS

| sysvinit

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| busybox-init

| Openbox

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| Budgie, Gnome, MATE, KDE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext2

| simpleinit-msb

| {{no2}} none

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| btrfs, ext4{{Cite web |title=Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux... |url=https://osseu2023.sched.com/event/1Qv8y/how-steamos-is-contributing-to-the-linux-ecosystem-alberto-garcia-igalia |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=osseu2023.sched.com}}

| systemd

| {{Proprietary|Steam, KDE Plasma{{Cite web |title=Buy devices with Plasma and KDE Applications |url=https://kde.org/hardware/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=KDE Community |language=en}}}}

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| btrfs{{cite web|url=https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP1/#TechInfo.Filesystems|title=Release Notes • Comparison of Supported File Systems|website=www.suse.com}}

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Linux-libre}}

| {{dunno}}

| systemd

| MATE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| none - headless server by design; provides Webmin for administration

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4{{cite web|url=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes |title=MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes - Ubuntu Wiki |website=Wiki.ubuntu.com |date=2011-01-20 |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| GNOME 3

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| MATE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| KDE Plasma Workspaces

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| LXQt

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Ututo XS (stable) is de-blobbed with Linux-libre tools.{{Cite web|url=http://ututo.org/downloads/scripts.tgz|title=scripts.tgz|access-date=2020-05-17}} Ututo UL (development) uses Linux-libre. Ututo UL means "Ubuntu-Libre"}}

| ext3

| systemd

| GNOME

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ReiserFS

| sysvinit

| KDE, Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfce

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| none

| runit

| {{no2}} none

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| gitfs

| sysvinit

| dwm enforcing a Browser-only interface

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext3

| systemd

| XBMC Media Center

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| systemd

| LXDE

| {{no}}

| {{Proprietary|Binary blobs}}

| ext4

| sysvinit

| Xfce

| {{no}}

!x86

!x86-64

!arm

!ia64

!ppc[http://penguinppc.org/3383] {{dead link|date=May 2021|fix-attempted=yes}}

!ppc64

!sparc32

!sparc64

!hppa{{cite web|url=http://www.parisc-linux.org/ |title=Parisc-Linux |publisher=Parisc-Linux |access-date=2016-11-12}}

!loongarch64

!mips{{cite web|url=http://www.linux-mips.org/ |title=LinuxMIPS |publisher=LinuxMIPS |access-date=2016-11-12}}

!sh

!s390

!s390x

!alpha{{cite web |url=http://www.alphalinux.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990117014622/http://www.alphalinux.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1999-01-17 |title=The AlphaLinux Homepage |website=AlphaLinux.org |access-date=2016-11-12}}

!m68k{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Lawrence |url=http://www.linux-m68k.org/ |title=The Linux/m68k Home Pages |website=Linux-m68k.org |date=2000-04-02 |access-date=2016-11-12}}

!riscv

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes|riscv64
3.20+}}

|{{partial|Unofficial{{cite web|url=https://archlinux32.org/ |title=Arch Linux 32 |publisher=Arch Linux 32 |access-date=2018-04-20}}
Official discontinued 2017-11-08{{cite web |url=https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-end-of-i686-support/ |title=The end of i686 support |website=Arch Linux |access-date=2018-01-14}}}}

|{{yes}}

|{{partial|Unofficial{{cite web|url=http://archlinuxarm.org/ |title=Arch Linux ARM |publisher=Arch Linux ARM |access-date=2016-11-12}}}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Discontinued unofficial port}}

|{{partial|Unofficial{{cite web|url= https://archlinuxpower.org/|title=ArchPOWER|access-date=2022-05-31}}}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Unofficial{{cite web |title=Loong Arch Linux |url=https://loongarchlinux.org/ |access-date=14 March 2025}}}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Unofficial{{cite web|url= https://archriscv.felixc.at/|title=Arch Linux RISC-V|access-date=2022-02-24}}}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux{{cite web|url=http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/|title=BackTrackDownloads|website=Backtrack-linux.org|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=13 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913200138/http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads|url-status=dead}}}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from BackTrack 5 and superseded by Kali Linux}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
2013-10-23}}{{cite web |url=http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/9393-dropping-official-support-for-arm-devices/ |title=Dropping Official Support for ARM Devices|website=Forums,bodhilinux.com |access-date=2014-05-13}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{dunno}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|AltArch}}

|{{yes}}

|{{partial|AltArch}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-October/012286.html |title=CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha architectures |author=Pasi Pirhonen |mailing-list=CentOS-announce |date=2005-10-13}}

|{{partial|Beta, Discontinued
4.0}}

|{{partial|AltArch}}

|{{partial|Beta
4.2}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-May/012921.html |title=EOL notice for CentOS-4/sparc beta release |author=Pasi Pirhonen |mailing-list=CentOS-announce |date=2006-05-24}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/011969.html |title=CentOS-4.1 s390(x) Release Announcement |author=Pasi Pirhonen |mailing-list=CentOS-announce |date=2005-06-24}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.5-3.8
4.1-4.7}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
4.2-4.3}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-June/000400.html |title=CentOS-4/alpha 4.1beta is there to play |author=Pasi Pirhonen |mailing-list=CentOS-announce |date=2005-06-26}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-June/012979.html |title=EOL notification for CentOS-4/axp (alpha) |author=Pasi Pirhonen |mailing-list=CentOS-announce |date=2006-06-25}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{dunno}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{dunno}}

|{{yes}}

|{{dunno}}

|{{dunno}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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|{{no}}

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|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Yes
4.0+}}

|{{yes|Yes
2.2+}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.0-7.0}}{{cite mailing list |url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/03/msg00009.html |title=Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release |author=Cyril Brulebois |mailing-list=debian-devel-announce |date=2014-03-19}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
2.2-8}}

|{{yes}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
2.1-4.0}}{{cite mailing list |url=http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/07/msg00006.html |title=Retiring the sparc32 port |author=Jurij Smakov |mailing-list=debian-devel-announce |date=2007-07-18}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
-7{{cite mailing list |url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/04/msg00012.html |title=SPARC removed from Jessie |author=Philipp Kern |mailing-list=debian-devel-announce |date=2014-04-26}}}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.0-5.0}}

|{{partial|Official port requested{{cite web |title=Requesting for the loong64 port could be included in the Official ports |url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/06/msg00170.html |access-date=14 March 2025}}}}

|{{yes|Yes
3.0+}}

|{{partial|In progress}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
3.0-7}}

|{{yes|Yes
7+}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
2.1-5.0}}

|{{partial|Discontinued
2.0-3.1}}

|{{partial|Officially testing{{cite web |title=riscv64 is now an official architecture |url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html |access-date=14 March 2025}}}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

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|{{no}}

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|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from
Fedora 30
}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}{{cite web |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM |title=Architectures/ARM |access-date=2010-07-20}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from
Fedora 9
}}{{cite web |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/IA64 |title=Architectures/IA64 |access-date=2012-03-24}}

|{{partial|Discontinued from
Fedora 17
}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|Inactive from
Fedora 12}}{{cite web |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC |title=Architectures/SPARC |access-date=2012-05-19}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|In progress}}

|{{partial|Inactive from
Fedora 13
}}{{cite web |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/MIPS |title=Architectures/MIPS |access-date=2011-01-27}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|In progress{{cite web |title=Architectures/RISC-V - Fedora Project Wiki |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V |access-date=14 July 2018}}}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-arm.xml |title=Project:ARM - Gentoo Wiki |website=Gentoo.org |date=2016-05-21 |access-date=2016-11-12}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}{{cite web|url=http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch |title=Project:LoongArch |website=Gentoo Wiki |access-date=14 March 2025}}

|{{yes}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-mips-faq.xml#hw-what |title=MIPS/FAQ - Gentoo Wiki |website=Gentoo.org |date=2015-11-05 |access-date=2016-11-12}}{{cite web | url = http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml | title = Gentoo/MIPS Linux Hardware Requirements}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RISC-V|title=Project:RISC-V - Gentoo Wiki|website=wiki.gentoo.org}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes|Yes, ARMv7 and AArch64}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|In progress{{cite web |title=Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support |url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-09/msg00255.html |access-date=2020-04-17}}}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{partial|In progress{{cite web |title=POWER (ppc64le) porting |url=https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=1336 |access-date=11 January 2019}}}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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! Free software repositories

! abbr="Packages" | Approximate number of pre-compiled packages

! abbr="Source packages" | Approximate number of source packages

! Default package management tool(s)

! abbr="Format" | Package format

! Default installer

! abbr="Graphical installation" | Graphical installation process

! Netinstall

! Netboot

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|13888}}apk list command, Alpine Linux v3.13{{cite web|url=http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/ |title=aports - Main aports tree |website=Git.alpinelinux.org |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{dunno}}

| apk

| .apk

| setup-alpine

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|iPXE}}{{cite web | url=https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Netboot_Alpine_Linux_using_iPXE | title=Netboot Alpine Linux using iPXE - Alpine Linux }}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|8300}}{{cite web |url=http://sisyphus.ru/ |title=Sisyphus - intro |website=Sisyphus.ru |access-date=2016-11-12 |archive-date=4 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204010854/http://www.sisyphus.ru/ |url-status=dead }}

| {{dunno}}

| APT (APT-RPM), RPM

| RPM

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|13751}}{{cite web |author= |title=Arch Linux - Package Search |url=https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Archlinux.org}}

| {{nts|90138}} from AUR{{cite web |author= |title=AUR (en) - Home |url=https://aur.archlinux.org/ |access-date=4 March 2025 |website=Aur.archlinux.org}}

| Pacman

| .pkg.tar.zst{{cite web|url=https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/ |title=Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression |website=Archlinux.org |access-date=2020-03-14}}

| [https://github.com/archlinux/arch-install-scripts arch-install-scripts]{{Cite web|last=Schmitz|first=Pierre|date=2012-07-22|title=Install media 2012.07.15 released|url=https://archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120715-released/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Arch Linux|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723143155/http://www.archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120715-released/ |archive-date=23 July 2012 }} and [https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall archinstaller]{{Cite web|last=Razzolini|first=Giancarlo|date=2021-04-01|title=Installation medium with installer|url=https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installer/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Arch Linux|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401180737/https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installer/ |archive-date=1 April 2021 }}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|iPXE}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|10000}}{{cite web |url=http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?p=25681#25681 |title=BLAG • View topic - rolling or frozen |website=Forums.blagblagblag.org |access-date=2016-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328031751/http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?p=25681#25681 |archive-date=2016-03-28 |url-status=dead }}

| {{dunno}}

| RPM, yum, APT

| RPM

|

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .dpkg

| Ubiquity

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| debian-installer

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|6813}}{{Efn|Based on Fedora}}yum list all command, CentOS Linux 8

| {{dunno}}

| RPM, yum/up2date

| RPM

|Anaconda

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|3074}}{{cite web |url=http://chakra-project.org/packages/ |title=The Chakra Project - Packages |access-date=2013-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315063910/http://www.chakra-project.org/packages/ |archive-date=2013-03-15 }}

| {{nts|5342|prefix=CCR: }}{{cite web|url=https://ccr.chakralinux.org/packages.php?O=0&PP=25&SO=a&detail=1|title=Chakra | CCR (en) -Home|website=ccr.chakralinux.org|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728193411/https://ccr.chakralinux.org/packages.php?O=0&PP=25&SO=a&detail=1|url-status=dead}}

| Pacman (will be replaced by Akabei in future)

| .pkg.tar.xz

|

| {{partial|Package manager in development}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|12,826}}

| {{nts|2,648}}

| apk

| .apk

| None

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Fedora}}

| {{dunno}}

| RPM, yum

| RPM

|

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| Swupd

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|171937}}{{cite web |title=All Debian packages in "sid" |url=https://packages.debian.org/sid/allpackages?format=txt.gz |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=Packages.debian.org |format=TXT}}

| {{nts|28923}}{{Efn|From the Sources.gz files in the [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/source/Sources.gz main], [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/contrib/source/Sources.gz contrib] and [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/non-free/source/Sources.gz non-free] sections of Debian Buster. On the 2020-06-12, Debian Sid, the development release, have 31717 source packages.}}

| APT

| .deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|PXE}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

|.deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|PXE}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|484}}

| {{dunno}}

| pkgsystem

| .tlz

| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|68419}}{{Cite web|url=https://packages.fedoraproject.org/|title=Fedora Packages|website=packages.fedoraproject.org|access-date=2023-05-22}}

| {{nts|41231}}{{cite web|url=https://src.fedoraproject.org/|title=Home - src.fedoraproject.org|website=src.fedoraproject.org|access-date=2025-03-05}}

| DNF, yum, PackageKit

| RPM

| Anaconda

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|118}}eix -- -bin$ command, Gentoo Linux (8 April 2025){{cite web|url=https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=-bin|title=Search Results for -bin

|website=packages.gentoo.org|publisher=Gentoo Foundation, Inc|date=8 April 2025|access-date=8 April 2025}}

| {{nts|19105}}{{cite web|title=Gentoo Packages|work=packages.gentoo.org|url=http://packages.gentoo.org/|publisher=Gentoo Foundation, Inc|date=8 April 2025|access-date=8 April 2025}}{{Efn|Note this number is just of packages in the Official Gentoo Overlay (or Portage Tree). Several hundred other packages are available from [http://gpo.zugaina.org other overlays]}}

| Portage

| .ebuild, .tbz2

| None (third-party install scripts only)

| {{yes}}{{Efn|Can be installed graphically (GTK+ and ncurses), but traditionally done by command line (install cd, live cd, netboot, and from distributions).}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|PXE}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|20,571}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ |title=Packages |date=2022-12-22 |access-date=2022-12-22}}

| {{nts|20,571}}

| Guix

| .scm, .go

| guix system init{{cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html#Invoking-guix-system |title=Invoking guix system |date=2020-04-15|access-date=2020-04-17}}

| {{yes}}{{cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.1.0-released/ |title=GNU Guix 1.1.0 released |date=2020-04-15|access-date=2020-04-17}}

| {{yes}}{{cite web|url=https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-deploy.html#Invoking-guix-deploy |title=Invoking guix deploy |date=2020-04-15|access-date=2020-04-17}}

| {{no}}

| {{free|Free only}}

| {{nts|6128}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/|title=Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre packages|access-date=2023-04-18}}

| {{dunno}}

| Pacman

| .pkg.tar.lz

| None (third-party install scripts only)

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

|

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|826}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

|

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Ubiquity

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|17283}} (i586), {{nts|11409}} (x86-64){{cite web |title=Linux Free Software Catalog and Packages Search|url=http://pkgs.org/#mageia-1|publisher=Linux Free Software Catalog and Packages Search|access-date=23 December 2011}}

| {{nts|8834}}{{cite web|url=http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ |title=Build system status |website=Pkgsubmit.mageia.org |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| urpmi, rpmdrake

| RPM

| DrakX

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|22600}}

| {{dunno}}

| urpmi, rpmdrake

| RPM

| DrakX

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Efn|Based on AUR}}

| Pacman

| .pkg.tar.xz

| Calamares{{cite web|url=https://calamares.io/ |title=Calamares – The universal installer framework |access-date=2018-02-03}}

| {{yes}}{{cite web|url=https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Graphical_Software_Managers |title=Graphical Software Managers - Manjaro Linux |website=Wiki.manjaro.org |date=2016-07-18 |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|iPXE}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| MEPIS Install

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|7109}}

| {{nts|2899}}

| RPM, yum, dnf

| RPM

| Anaconda

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|1819}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|71311}}{{cite web | url=https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1806590?filter=x86_64-linux&compare=1806590&full=#tabs-still-succeed | title=Hydra - Evaluation 1806590 of jobset nixpkgs:trunk }}

| {{nts|124166}}{{cite web | url=https://repology.org/repository/nix_unstable | title=Nixpkgs unstable repository information - Repology | access-date=2025-03-05 }}

| nix

| .nix

| Calamares

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}{{cite web | url=https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Netboot | title=Netboot - NixOS Wiki }}

| {{yes}}{{cite web | url=https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-booting-from-pxe | title=Nix - NixOS 22.05 manual }}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|140}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/tree/master/packages |title=OpenELEC.tv/packages at master · OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv · GitHub |website=Github.com |access-date=2016-11-12}}

| {{dunno}}

| XBMCbuntu addon manager, own and 3rd party addons

| .zip

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|42236}} with PackMan{{Cite web |title=openSUSE Software |url=https://software.opensuse.org/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=software.opensuse.org}}

| {{nts|34000}}

| YaST, Zypper

| RPM

| YaST

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|2000}}

| {{dunno}}

| opkg

| .ipk

| -

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|23000}}{{cite web|url=https://www.parabola.nu/packages/|title=Parabola GNU/Linux-libre - Package Search|access-date=14 July 2018}}

| {{dunno}}

| Pacman

| .pkg.tar.xz

| None (third-party install scripts only) or Calamares

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|4000}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Debian-Installer

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{nts|14900}}

| APT

| .deb

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|12000}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT, RPM

| RPM

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|700}}

| {{dunno}}

| PupGet, DotPup

|.pup, .pet

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|3000}} (plus {{nts|9155}} from EPEL{{cite web|url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL |title=EPEL |publisher=FedoraProject |date=2016-05-26 |access-date=2016-11-12}})

| {{dunno}}

| RPM, yum

| RPM

|Anaconda

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Gentoo}}

| {{dunno}}

| Portage, Entropy

| ebuild, .tbz2

| Calamares

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Fedora}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT/yum

| RPM

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|2292}}

| {{nts|7705}} from SlackBuilds{{Cite web|url=https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=&sv=14.2|title=SlackBuilds.org|website=slackbuilds.org}}

| slackpkg

| tgz, .txz, .tlz, .tbz

| [http://ponce.cc/slackware/testing/slackware-setup-scripts/ bash script]found this in /usr/lib/setup/setup

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|2050}}

| {{dunno}}

| none

| .lzm

|

|

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|3381}}{{cite web |url=http://pkgs.slitaz.org/search.sh?version=s |title=3383 packages and 430719 files in stable database (Sat 22 October 2016 04:04:55 PM UTC) |website=Pkgs.slitaz.org |access-date=2016-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110002406/http://pkgs.slitaz.org/search.sh?version=s |archive-date=10 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}

| {{dunno}}

| Tazpkg

| .tazpkg

| tazinst

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|iPXE}}

| {{yes|iPXE}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|9500}}

| {{dunno}}

| eopkg

| .eopkg

| os-installer

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|118}}

| {{nts|8876}}

| Sorcery Package Manager

| src

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|24094}}

| {{nts|11385}}

| YaST, Zypper

| RPM

| YaST

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|52748}}{{cite web|title=All Trisquel Packages in "belenos"|url=http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/allpackages?format=txt.gz|work=Trisquel|access-date=2015-09-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110002406/http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/allpackages?format=txt.gz|archive-date=2016-01-10}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| Ubiquity

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}} (plus ≈30 custom packages)

| {{nts|21041}}{{Efn|From the Sources.gz files in the [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/source/Sources.gz main], [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/contrib/source/Sources.gz contrib] and [http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/non-free/source/Sources.gz non-free] sections of Debian Jessie. On the 2015-11-21, Debian Sid, the development release, have 24757 source packages.}} (currently TurnKey only supplies source code for custom packages)

| APT

| .deb

| DI-Live (custom fork of Debian Installer)

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|110066}}{{Efn|Based on Debian}}{{cite web|url=https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/allpackages?format=txt.gz |format=TXT |title=All Ubuntu packages in "kinetic" |website=Packages.ubuntu.com |access-date=2023-03-14}}

| {{nts|24474}}{{Efn|From the Sources.gz files in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151122065828/http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wily/main/source/Sources.gz main],[https://web.archive.org/web/20151122064308/http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wily/universe/source/Sources.gz universe], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151122040605/http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wily/multiverse/source/Sources.gz multiverse] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20151122033824/http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/wily/restricted/source/Sources.gz restricted] sections of Ubuntu Wily.}}

| APT

| .deb

| Ubiquity

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|PXE}}

| {{Free|Free only}}

| {{nts|5000}}

| {{dunno}}

| UTUTO Package Manager

| ebuild

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| slapt-get, gslapt, installpkg

| tgz

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, nonfree and multilib}}

| {{nts|6000}}

| {{nts|6719}}

| xbps

| .xbps

| ncurses script

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

|

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{dunno}}

| APT

| .deb

| dpkg

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Partial|Free, and nonfree}}

| {{nts|2000}}

| {{dunno}}

| netpkg, installpkg, upgradepkg

| tgz, txz

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

! Size of media (MB)

! RAM use (MB)

! Boots from CD

! Boots from DVD

! Installable live CD/DVD

! Installable from USB

| {{nts|63}} (Virtual) {{nts|1019}} (Xen){{cite web|url=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/releases/x86_64/|title=Index of /alpine/latest-stable/releases/x86_64/|date=5 December 2024|accessdate=30 December 2024}}

| {{nts|96|prefix=min }} {{nts|2048|prefix=GUI }}{{cite web|url=https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Requirements|title=Requirements - Alpine Linux|date=20 December 2024|accessdate=30 December 2024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|742}}

| {{nts|80|prefix=min }}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|426}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|696}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

|

| {{nts|1024}}

| {{nts|80}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|603}} (Minimal) {{nts|4096}} (DVD)

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes |Yes (installable since 6.0)}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|2150}}

|

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{nts|649}} to {{nts|1223}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|4443}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{nts|50}}{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions - DSL Wiki|url=https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/frequently_asked_questions.html#Will_DSL_ever_get_bigger_than_50_MBytes.3F|date=3 July 2010|access-date=18 July 2024}}+{{cite web|title=Damn Small Linux Not is Not Damn Small Linux!|url=https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/|access-date=18 July 2024}}

| {{nts|24}} to {{nts|64}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1420}}{{Cite web |title=Live install images |url=https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ }}{{Cite web |title=Index of /debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid |url=https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=cdimage.debian.org}}

| {{nts|2048|prefix=Up to }}{{cite web |title=DVD/USB Live install images |url=https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/ |website=Debian |access-date=12 August 2024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|868}}

!

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|655}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{nts|1650}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{partial|up to version 2.x}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{nts|1434}}

| {{nts|256}} to {{nts|1024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|260}} (Minimal) {{nts|2048}} (Live DVD)

| {{nts|128|prefix=up to }}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1200}}

| {{nts|512}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{nts|460}}

| {{nts|32}} to {{nts|128}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|814}}

| {{nts|233}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1124}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{partial|up to version 0.3.x}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|128}} to {{nts|320}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No|Only DVD edition is maintained}}

|

| {{nts|4813}}

| {{nts|128}} to {{nts|500}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

|

|

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|128}} to {{nts|768}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|473}} to {{nts|2200}}{{cite web |title=Get Manjaro |url=https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/ |access-date=2018-02-03 |archive-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909160202/https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/ |url-status=dead }}

| {{nts|256}} to {{nts|1024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|700}} to {{nts|4000}}

| {{nts|128}} to {{nts|512}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|2000}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|18}}

| {{nts|64|prefix=≈}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|780}} (Minimal) {{nts|1700}} (Plasma) {{nts|2200}} (GNOME)

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|192}} to {{nts|512}}

| {{Yes}}

|

| {{Yes}}

|

| {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|128}} to {{nts|768}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|4|prefix=min }}

| {{nts|16|prefix=min }}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{nts|400}} to {{nts|3300}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{nts|1256}} to {{nts|1276}}

| {{nts|256}} to {{nts|1024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|130}} to {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|96}} to {{nts|512}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|666}} and {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|48}} to {{nts|96}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes |By hand}}{{Cite web|url=http://trac.pentoo.ch/wiki/Livecd/Installation|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108084126/http://trac.pentoo.ch/wiki/Livecd/Installation|url-status=dead|title=Pentoo Development Website|archivedate=8 January 2010}}

| {{Yes |By hand}}

| {{nts|224}} to {{nts|373}}

| {{nts|36|prefix=min }}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|235}}

| {{nts|32}} to {{nts|192}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|542}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|695}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|2400}}

|

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|431}} to {{nts|2300}}{{cite web | url=http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/63/i386/ | title=Scientific Linux i386 Live CD/DVD | access-date=2012-09-26 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920044815/http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/63/i386/ | archive-date=2012-09-20}}

| {{nts|640}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|2600}}

| {{nts|64}} to {{nts|1024}}{{cite web |title=System Requirements |url=http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php |website=slackware |access-date=1 August 2019}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|200}}

| {{nts|96}} to {{nts|320}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1200}}

| {{nts|1024}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|459}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|50}}

| {{nts|48}} to {{nts|256}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|900|prefix=≈}}

| {{nts|1024|prefix=≈}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}} (when run from DVD)

| {{nts|17}} (Core) {{nts|248}} (Core Plus){{cite web|title=Downloads - Tiny Core Linux|url=http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html|access-date=September 13, 2012|author=Robert Shingledecker|year=2012}}

| {{nts|28}} to {{nts|128}}{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions: What are the minimum requirements?|url=http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req|access-date=September 13, 2012|author=Robert Shingledecker}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1.44}}

| {{nts|4}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes |By SliTaz}}

| {{Yes |By SliTaz}}

| {{nts|1500}}{{cite web | url=https://trisquel.info/en/download | title=Download Trisquel GNU/Linux | publisher=trisquel.info | access-date=5 November 2014}}

| {{nts|384}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|212}}

| {{nts|173|prefix=~}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1700}}{{cite web | url=http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ | title=Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) | publisher=ubuntu.com | access-date=13 May 2018}}

| {{nts|384}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|2900}}{{cite web|url=http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/14.04/release/|title=Edubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (Trusty Tahr)|publisher=ubuntu.com|access-date=9 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817053101/http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/14.04/release/ | archive-date=17 August 2015 |url-status=dead}}

|

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

|

| {{nts|1400}}{{cite web | url=http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/16.04/release/ | title=Kubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) | publisher=ubuntu.com | access-date=8 May 2016}}

| {{nts|384}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|1200}}{{cite web | url=http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/16.04/release/ | title=Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) | website=Ubuntu.com | access-date=8 May 2016}}

| {{nts|256}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|3500}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{nts|700}}

| {{nts|256}} to {{nts|1024}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{nts|600}}

| {{nts|256}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

! Compile time buffer checks

! Mandatory access control

! Software executable space protection

! grsecurity

! RSBAC

| {{yes}}{{cite web|url=https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86/fortify-headers|title=Package details|access-date=2020-07-17}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{yes|PaX}}

| {{no|Discontinued in 3.8.0}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Yes|Yes, since Android Marshmallow}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Yes|SELinux, AppArmor}}

| {{Yes|PaX}} optional

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes|SELinux}}{{cite web|url=https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2008/91/SE-Linux|title=Mandatory Access Control with SELinux|website=linux-magazine.com|access-date=2020-05-17}}

| {{Yes|Exec Shield}}{{cite web|url=https://distrowatch.com/external/RedHat-Severn-Release-Notes2.html|title=Fedora Core 0.94 Release Notes|website=distrowatch.com|access-date=2020-05-17}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional|SELinux, AppArmor}}

| {{Yes|PaX}} optional

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes|SELinux, AppArmor}}{{Efn|Based on Debian}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes|AppArmor}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes|SELinux}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{No}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{optional|Optional{{cite web|url=https://wiki.parabola.nu/Xtreme|title=Xtreme - ParabolaWiki|website=wiki.parabola.nu}}}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{optional|Optional}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes|AppArmor, tomoyo}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{optional}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes|AppArmor}}{{cite web|url=https://documentation.suse.com/sles/11-SP4/single-html/SLES-apparmor-quick/index.html|title=AppArmor (2.3.1) Quick Start|website=Suse.com|date=2010-07-10|access-date=2020-07-17}}

| {{Yes|Hardware NX and other methods in mainline kernel and toolchain}}{{cite web|url=https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Security_Features|title=Security Features|access-date=2009-11-23}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes|AppArmor}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{No}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Yes|SELinux, AppArmor}}{{Efn|Based on Ubuntu}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{yes}}{{Cite web | url=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features | title=Ubuntu Security/Features | access-date=2021-05-16}}

| {{Yes|SELinux, AppArmor}}

| {{Yes|PaX}} optional

| {{Optional}}

| {{Optional}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}

| {{Unknown}}