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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 based | 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. | ||
====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]] | |||
==Known Linux distributions== | ==Known Linux distributions== | ||
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* Debian | |||
** Knoppix | |||
*** Damn Small Linux | |||
** Sparky Linux | |||
* Gentoo | |||
** ChromeOS | |||
** Korora | |||
* Linspire | * Linspire | ||
* Oracle Linux | * Mandrake | ||
** Mandriva | |||
*** Mageia | |||
*** PCLinuxOS | |||
* Mint | |||
* Oracle Linux - Red Hat fork | |||
* Red Hat | * Red Hat | ||
* Slackware | ** Fedora | ||
** CentOS | |||
** Scientific Linux | |||
* Slackware - Ruled the roost in the mid 90's but has declined since. Very UNIX like. | |||
* Suse | |||
** OpenSuse | |||
* Ubuntu - Currently the most popular distribution. | |||
** Elementary OS | |||
** Kbuntu | |||
** Lubuntu | |||
* Yggdrasil - The first Linux distribution. | * 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]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:UNIX]] | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 12 January 2016
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.
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
Known Linux distributions
- Debian
- Knoppix
- Damn Small Linux
- Sparky Linux
- Knoppix
- Gentoo
- ChromeOS
- Korora
- Linspire
- Mandrake
- Mandriva
- Mageia
- PCLinuxOS
- Mandriva
- Mint
- Oracle Linux - Red Hat fork
- Red Hat
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Scientific Linux
- Slackware - Ruled the roost in the mid 90's but has declined since. Very UNIX like.
- Suse
- OpenSuse
- Ubuntu - Currently the most popular distribution.
- Elementary OS
- Kbuntu
- Lubuntu
- Yggdrasil - The first Linux distribution.