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Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Based on Red Hat, compiled with Pentium optimizations, and some additional packages.
Ports: Intel
Caldera is based in Orem, Utah - and is funded by Ray Noorda (the
founder of Novell). LST (a German Linux distribution) merged with
them in 1997. Caldera folks have contributed several things to the
kernel (IPX, PPP modularization, network drivers, etc.).
Languages: English, German
A popular commercially-distributed Linux distribution - featuring
LISA (Linux Installation System Administration), COAS (Caldera Open
Administration System) + several proprietary value-added
programs (such as StarOffice and BRU).
Ports: Intel, m68k, Alpha, Sparc (PowerPC, UltraSparc, MIPS, ARM, Beowulf and GNU Hurd under development)
Unlike most other
distributions, there is no single company funding development and
marketing. As a result, the only marketing it gets is "word-of-mouth".
Even so, it is very popular, especially with professional Unix sysadmins.
It is based on the "dpkg" package manager - which has evolved to be the
most sophisticated packaging system. It is the easiest distribution to
upgrade and keep up-to-date. A rigorous set of policies and a well-used
bug system means that it is remarkably well integrated, given the
size.
Debian is very sophisticated - as it has been developed to meet the needs
of it's developers, who are very experienced. Unfortunately, it can be quite
intimidating to new users. Fortunately, there is plenty of documentation
and support (online and commercial) available.
There is also a separate Debian JP project which produces
a Japanese version of the distribution.
Languages: English, with some support for French, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Chinese
Debian GNU/Linux is the largest Linux distribution - developed
entirely by unpaid volunteers on the Internet - over 300 at last
count. (Bias alert: I am one of the Debian developers!)
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Based on Red Hat with some enhancements.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Eonova Linux is a new distribution based on the "pkg" package manager, which is a variant of RPM.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English, French
Produced by the folks that bring you Linux Center. It is based on Red Hat 5.1, with KDE as the user interface.
Ports: Intel, PowerPC
Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese
TurboLinux is an RPM-based Linux distribution. There is also a Japanese variant, which is reported to be the most popular variant of Linux in Japan.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
A volunteer built distribution based on Red Hat.
Ports: Intel, Alpha, Sparc (many other platforms are supported by other distributions based on Red Hat, see below)
It is maintained by Red Hat Software, which is the most successful
Linux company (privately owned). It counts a large number of high
profile free software authors and veteran kernel hackers (ie.
Alan Cox,
Michael Johnson,
Stephen Tweedie)
among their 40+ staff members.
Their Red Hat Advanced Development
Labs division consists of several talented programmers who work
exclusively writing free software for projects such as
Gnome.
It is based around the RPM
packaging system, which makes installing and upgrading easy. The
core distribution is supplemented by hundreds of "contrib" packages,
which are contributed by volunteers.
Languages: English, Czech, French, German, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish (there are many localized international distributions based on Red Hat, see below)
Red Hat is currently the most popular Linux distribution. It is very
popular among Linux developers. Even Linus uses it!
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Patrick Volkerding's famous Slackware distribution. It was once the
most popular Linux distribution (now Red Hat is). It is sold commercially
through Walnut
Creek CDROM.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
A new volunteer-run distribution. They are developing a new packaging format
(similar in nature to the Slackware format) and the whole distribution is
compiled with Pentium optimizations.
Ports: Intel, Alpha
Languages: German, English
SuSE is quite possibly the most popular distribution in Germany and Europe, and is now being marketed in the U.S. and Internationally. It is based on a variant of RPM and their own setup tool (YaST). SuSE also writes X Servers (video drivers) for the XFree86 project.
Ports: Intel
Not to be confused with SkyGate Technology EasyLinux or EASYLinux-kr.
Languages: German, English
Based off of the KDE GUI with additional customizations.
Ports: Intel
Not to be confused with eIT easyLinux or EASYLinux-kr.
Languages: English
Based on Red Hat.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Based on Red Hat 4.2. Comes with Accelerated-X, CDE, and Motif. Available in "Executive" and "Developer" versions.
A Linux distribution for Acorn systems. Based on Red Hat.
A volunteer-built distribution for for the StrongARM-based Corel NetWinder. Based on Red Hat.
Yet another distribution for the StrongARM-based Corel NetWinder. Based on Red Hat.
A variant of Linux for 8086 and 80286 class PCs. :-)
A Linux distribution for Power Macs (supported by Apple). It is based on a variant of the Linux kernel which uses the Mach microkernel.
Another Linux distribution for PowerMac and PReP machines - based on the regular monolithic Linux kernel from Linus. RPM based.
A Linux distribution for Apple Macintosh G3 computers - based on the regular monolithic Linux kernel from Linus (from LinuxPPC). RPM based.
Linux distribution for the PowerMac - uses MkLinux kernel. RPM based.
There is much work being done to get the Linux kernel to work on Motorola m68k-based systems, such as the old Macs, Amigas, Ataris, MVME boards, old HP 9000/300 workstations, black NeXT hardware, and Sun 3 workstations.The Debian project is putting together an m68k distribution. And there is a collection of m68k RPMs on ftp.redhat.com/pub/m68k/. In addition, there is the German Eagle Linux M68k distribution for Amiga machines.
Red Hat based, by Jes Sorenson.
A Linux kernel and beginnings of a distribution for MIPS-based machines (including non-SGI, ARC machines).
RPMS and SRPMS for the Little Endian MIPS architecture machines, such as the Cobalt Qube.
A Linux distribution for Silicon Graphics MIPS-based machines. Red Hat based.
A Linux distribution for Sun UltraSPARC machines. Based on Red Hat.
A Linux distribution built for quad Xeon SMP systems. Based on Red Hat.
A Linux distribution for Beowulf class machines (many machines tied together via networking that act as a single supercomputer). Based on Red Hat.
A distribution for builing clusters using PowerPC systems. Based on Yellow Dog Linux.
A specialized Linux distribution with a modified "hardened" Linux kernel and other security enhancements.
A Red Hat-derived distribution compiled with the "StackGuard" compiler. This is intended to detect and prevent stack smashing/buffer overrun attacks.
Red Hat-based with a real time kernel and tools.
A "server and gateway" distribution. Red Hat-based.
Brazilian
Based on Red Hat.
Add-ons for Red Hat to add Chinese functionality. (not a full distribution)
RPM-based.
Based on Red Hat.
French version of Red Hat.
PC X-Station Linux distribution + a Real-Time Linux distribution (based on Debian).
Based on Debian. For educational use.
Based on Red Hat.
For Amigas. Based on Debian.
RPM based.
Based on Slackware.
A commercial distribution based on Debian. Alessandro Rubini (author of "Linux Device Drivers", as well as the Kernel Corner column for the Linux Journal) is the President. Several Debian developers are employees. MondoLinux sells the Athena Linux distribution, which is based on Prosa, and comes with a book.
Based on Debian.
Kernel and tools for NEC PC-98xx machines. (not a full distribution)
Based on Red Hat.
Japanese RPMs for Red Hat.
RPM based distributions for Intel, Alpha.
Based on PHT TurboLinux. Reported to be the most popular Linux distribution in Japan.
Add-ons for Red Hat and Slackware to add Japanese functionality. (not a full distribution)
Based on Red Hat. English and Korean. Runnable from CD without installing.Not to be confused with eIT easyLinux or SkyGate Technology EasyLinux.
Based on Red Hat.
Based on Red Hat.
Based on Debian.
Based on Red Hat.
Based on Eurielec (below).
Based on Red Hat.
Based on Red Hat.
Mexican distribution based on Red Hat.
Based on Red Hat.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
Based off of Slackware.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English, German
A "hacker" distribution put together by Florian La Roche. More information is available in the README.txt file.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
David Parson's variant of Slackware.
Ports: Intel
Languages: English
A volunteer-run distribution based on a the "encap" package manager,
which installs each package into it's own directory, and uses symlinks
to tie everything together.
A Czech floppy-based distribution with networking.
A single floppy distribution with the 2.2.x kernel.
"Client-use-oriented Linux" - Approximately 25MB, it is designed to be installed on a DOS FAT or FAT32 partition.
A subset distribution of Debian targetted at ISPs.
A single floppy distribution.
This is a small Linux operating system that can be installed on an existing Dos system i.e. msdos, pcdos, opendos, and win95 in dos mode.
A 25MB UMSDOS distribution designed to be installed on top of DOS.
A single floppy distribution for building firewalls.
A two floppy distribution derived from Debian.
A Czech single floppy distribution.
A single floppy distribution.
A small distribution for embedded applications.
A single floppy distribution. It's meant to be used on computers with ethernet adapters. It comes with Lynx, ftp, telnet and ssh clients.
A small distribution for building routers.
A single floppy distribution with the Squid http proxy.
A special version of LinuxPPC that can be booted from the Mac OS without repartioning.
A 14 MB Croatian Linux distribution.
A Czech distribution on 5 diskettes.
A single floppy distribution. NFS Boot, swap, ethernet, PPP, email, NFS, ftp, finger, telnet, tcpdump, traceroute, SMBfs, IP masquerading, IRC, Lynx, remote access via modem (miterm), editing and printing, play & record WAV, CD listening, Sound Blaster and PC speaker support, fax recieving, sending and printing. Wow. A second floppy comes with X windows.
A HOWTO written in Spanish about how to build a single floppy Linux distribution. It also comes with an example disk image.
A single floppy system with networking and ssh.
Single floppy router modem-ethernet, IPmasquerade + diald + dhcpd.
Linux + IP masquerad + DHCP server + DNS server + up to 3 ethernet cards + up to 2 modems. Administration: telnet, web, console. Fits in a single floppy disk 1.44"
A UMSDOS based small distribution (25 MB). From the Czech republic (notice a pattern here ;-)
For building gateways.
Turn SPARCstations (possibly diskless) into X Terminals running Linux.
Less the 2MB. Uses kernel 1.0.9 (ELF).
A single floppy distribution for system rescue and system administration.
A single floppy distribution.
A small security distribution. This comes with a wide variety of the coolest security/hacker tools.
Comes in several flavours:
- FloppyX - Linux + XFree in two floppies
- HdX - umsdos based
- HdX Alpha - test version
A subset of Slackware. UMSDOS based. About 100MB - will fit on an Iomega Zip disk.
Announced at Linux World Conference & Expo in March 1998.
For embedded applications.
Hebrew Linux.