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An open source clone of the UNIX operating system, and by far the most popular of such. Technically speaking only the system kernel is supposed to be called Linux but it has become customary to refer to any OS distribution that is based on it and has a UNIX style userland by the name.

The Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is also used by a few operating systems that do not have a UNIX style userland on top of them, the best known of these is Android

Porting issues

See: Porting from Unix platforms

Linux distributions

Debian
- Knoppix
  - Damn Small Linux
- Sparky Linux
Gentoo
- ChromeOS
- Korora
Linspire
Mandrake
- Mandriva
  - Mageia
  - PCLinuxOS
Mint
Oracle Linux - Red Hat fork
Red Hat
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Scientific Linux
Slackware - Ruled the roost in the mid 90s but has declined since. Very UNIX like.
SUSE
- OpenSuse
  - Gears on Gallium
  - GeckoLinux
  - LinKat - Government supported Catalan distribution.
Ubuntu - Currently the most popular distribution.
- Elementary OS
- Kbuntu
- Lubuntu
  - Peppermint Linux
Yggdrasil - The first Linux distribution.

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-An open source clone of the [[UNIX]] operating system. Technically speaking only the OS [[kernel]] is supposed to be called Linux but it has become customary to refer to any OS distribution that is based on it and has a UNIX style userland by the name.
+An open source clone of the [[UNIX]] operating system, and by far the most popular of such. Technically speaking only the system kernel is supposed to be called Linux but it has become customary to refer to any OS distribution that is based on it and has a UNIX style userland by the name.
-====Linux kernel====
+;The Linux kernel
 The Linux kernel is also used by a few operating systems that do not have a UNIX style userland on top of them, the best known of these is [[Android]]
+==Porting issues==
+See: [[Porting from Unix platforms]]
-==Known Linux distributions==
+==Linux distributions==
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 * Debian
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 * Mandrake
 ** Mandriva
-*** Mageia
+*** [http://www.mageia.org Mageia]
 *** PCLinuxOS
-* Mint
+* [http://www.linuxmint.com Mint]
 * Oracle Linux - Red Hat fork
 * Red Hat
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 ** CentOS
 ** Scientific Linux
-* Slackware - Ruled the roost in the mid 90's but has declined since. Very UNIX like.
+* Slackware - Ruled the roost in the mid 90s but has declined since. Very UNIX like.
-* Suse
+* SUSE
-** OpenSuse
+** [https://opensuse.org OpenSuse]
-* Ubuntu - Currently the most popular distribution.
+*** Gears on Gallium
+*** GeckoLinux
+*** [http://linkat.xtec.cat LinKat] - Government supported Catalan distribution.
+* [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu] - Currently the most popular distribution.
 ** Elementary OS
 ** Kbuntu
 ** Lubuntu
+*** Peppermint Linux
 * Yggdrasil - The first Linux distribution.
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-[[Category:Operating Systems]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:UNIX]]
+[[Category:Operating Systems]][[Category:Open Source Software]]