Comparison of Linux distributions
Architecture support
Columns: Distribution | x86-64 | ia64 | ppc64 | sparc32 | hppa | mips | s390 | s390x | alpha | m68k
Arch Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | BackTrack | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Bodhi Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | CentOS | Yes | Discontinued 3.5-3.8 4.1-4.7 | No | Beta 4.2 | No | No | Discontinued 3.5-3.8 4.1-4.7 | Discontinued 3.5-3.8 4.1-4.7 | Discontinued 4.2-4.3 | No | Chakra | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | CRUX | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Debian | Yes 4.0+ | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Discontinued on Lenny | Discontinued 3.0-5.0 | Yes 3.0+ | Yes 3.0+ | Yes 7.0+ | Discontinued 2.1-5.0 | Discontinued 2.0-3.1 | Fedora | Yes | Discontinued from Fedora 9 | Yes | No | No | Inactive from Fedora 13 | No | Yes | No | No | Finnix | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Frugalware | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Gentoo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Kali Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | MEPIS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | MintPPC | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | OES2-Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | openSUSE | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | OpenWrt | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Oracle Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Red Flag Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Red Hat Linux | No | Discontinued 7.1-7.2 | No | Discontinued 4.0-4.2 5.1-6.2 | No | Test release 5.1 | Discontinued 7.2 | Discontinued 7.1 | Discontinued 2.1-7.1 | Test release 5.1 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Yes 3+ | Discontinued 2.1-5 | Yes 3+ | No | No | No | Discontinued 3-4 | Yes 3+ | No | No | Rxart Desktop | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Porteus | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Scientific Linux | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | SHR | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Slackware | Yes | No | No | Discontinued ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | Discontinued 8.1 | No | Source Mage GNU/Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Tor-ramdisk | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Xubuntu / Lubuntu | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | XBMC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yellow Dog Linux | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Distribution | x86-64 | ia64 | ppc64 | sparc32 | hppa | mips | s390 | s390x | alpha | m68k