Distributions Linux

A commercial, RHEL-compatible distribution purpose-built for shared web hosting, isolating each customer account's resource usage at the kernel level.

The volunteer-run, community-governed distribution that Ubuntu, Mint, MX Linux, Kali, Raspberry Pi OS, and hundreds of other distributions are built on top of.

A Debian-based 'pure blend' built specifically for whole-school deployment -- a pre-configured server/client network setup with education software, originating from a Norwegian schools project.

A visually striking, China-developed distribution built around its own from-scratch desktop environment, DDE, known for smooth animations and a control-center design.

A fork of Debian created specifically to keep offering a systemd-free init-system option after Debian itself adopted systemd as its default, without otherwise diverging from Debian's package base.

A highly optimized, minimal Debian-based distribution for single-board computers, offering a menu-driven tool to install and configure dozens of self-hosted services with minimal resource overhead.

An Ubuntu-LTS-based gaming distribution with a customized MATE desktop, prioritizing a low-latency, low-overhead system tuned specifically for game performance.

A live distribution built for media activists and independent creators, endorsed by the GNU Project, that resumed development in 2024 after a long hiatus with a Devuan-based, KDE Plasma release.

An official Ubuntu flavor bundling a curated set of educational software for classroom and homeschool use on top of Ubuntu's standard desktop base.

A long-running, visually distinctive Debian-based distribution built entirely around the Enlightenment desktop, prized for its eye-catching effects and unusually low resource usage for how polished it looks.

A French humanitarian-project distribution built specifically for refurbishing donated computers destined for charities and disadvantaged communities, distributed both as Debian- and Ubuntu-based editions.

A community-founded, close-to-vanilla Arch Linux experience with a friendlier graphical installer, created after the popular Antergos distribution shut down.

An immutable, OSTree-based distribution built by a nonprofit-backed company for users with limited or no internet access, bundling a large offline app and content library directly into the OS image.

An official Fedora Lab spin for audio production, pairing a lightweight LXQt desktop with a curated set of open-source music-making and audio-editing tools on Fedora's RPM base.

The official KDE Plasma edition of Fedora, offering the same fast-moving, upstream-close base as Fedora Workstation with a Plasma desktop instead of GNOME.

The KDE Plasma counterpart to Fedora Silverblue -- the same immutable, atomically-updated rpm-ostree base, with a Plasma desktop instead of GNOME.

An official Fedora Lab spin preloaded with security auditing, forensics, and testing tools on top of Fedora's standard RPM base and Xfce desktop.

Fedora's server-focused edition, pairing the same fast-moving upstream packages as Fedora Workstation with the Cockpit web-based admin console preinstalled.

Fedora's immutable desktop edition: the base operating system is a read-only image updated atomically, with everyday applications installed as sandboxed Flatpaks instead of traditional packages.

Red Hat's community distribution and the reference GNOME desktop -- fast-moving, close to upstream, and the proving ground for features that later land in RHEL.

A small, no-frills live distribution built as a sysadmin's toolkit for system maintenance and disaster recovery, deliberately excluding a desktop environment or unnecessary extras.

The GNOME project's own reference operating system image, built nightly from the very latest upstream GNOME code, primarily meant for testing and development rather than daily use.

A minimal live distribution built around a single purpose: running the GParted graphical partition editor to resize, move, create, or delete disk partitions outside of any installed operating system.

A visually dramatic, performance- and gaming-oriented Arch Linux derivative, shipping a heavily themed KDE Plasma desktop and gaming tools pre-installed by default.

An unofficial, user-friendliness-focused respin of openSUSE that pre-configures codecs, drivers, and desktop tweaks openSUSE itself leaves out for licensing reasons.

A source-based distribution where nearly every package is compiled on your own machine from source rather than downloaded pre-built, giving fine-grained control over exactly how software is built.

A GNU project distribution built around the Guix package manager -- like NixOS, fully declarative and reproducible, but built in Guile Scheme and holding to a strict 100%-free-software policy.

An FSF-endorsed, security- and simplicity-focused distribution that broke from Arch's rolling-release model in favor of a more conservative, long-term-support-style base while keeping Arch package compatibility.