OS Type: Linux Based on: Debian, Ubuntu Origin: Ireland Architecture: i386, x86_64 Desktop: GNOME, KDE, MATE Category: Beginners, Desktop, Live Medium Status: Active Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components.
OS Type: Linux Based on: Debian, Ubuntu Origin: Isle of Man Architecture: i686, x86_64 Desktop: Unity Category: Beginners, Desktop, Server, Live Medium, Netbooks Status: Active Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent Origin: USA Architecture: i686, x86_64 Desktop: GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Xfce Category: Desktop, Server, Live Medium Status: Active The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent Origin: Germany Architecture: i586, x86_64 Desktop: Blackbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, Openbox,WMaker, Xfce Category: Desktop, Server, Live Medium Status: Active The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent Origin: Global Architecture: armel, hppa, ia64, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390,sparc64, x86_64 Desktop: AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE,LXDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce Category: Desktop, Live Medium, Server Status: Active The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent Origin: Canada Architecture: i686, x86_64 Desktop: Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE,Openbox, WMaker, Xfce Category: Desktop, Server Status: Active Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686- and x86_64-optimised Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses ‘pacman’, its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest software applications
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent (originally forked from Mandriva), Mageia Origin: France Architecture: i586, x86_64 Desktop: GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce Category: Desktop, Live Medium, Server Status: Active Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is
OS Type: Linux Based on: Fedora, Red Hat Origin: USA Architecture: i386, x86_64 Desktop: GNOME, KDE Category: Desktop, Live Medium, Server Status: Active CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users. Typical CentOS users are organisations and individuals that do not need strong commercial support in order
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent Origin: Australia Architecture: i386 Desktop: JWM, Openbox Category: Desktop, Old Computers, Live Medium, Netbooks Status: Active Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What’s different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions
OS Type: Linux Based on: Independent (originally forked from Mandriva), PCLinuxOS Origin: USA Architecture: i586 Desktop: Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE,Openbox, Xfce Category: Beginners, Desktop, Live Medium Status: Active PCLinuxOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for many popular graphics and sound cards, as well as other peripheral devices. The bootable live CD
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