Sammenligning av Linux-distribusjoner

En sammenligning av Linux-distribusjoner er en sammenligning som tar for seg forskjellig maskinvareutstyr og programvarepakker. Forskjellene i en organisasjons valgte distribusjon kan også motiveres av historiske årsaker. Andre kriterier inkluderer sikkerhet, hvor raskt sikkerhetsoppgraderinger er tilgjengelige, brukervennligheten til pakkesystemet og antall tilgjengelige programvarepakker.

Disse tabellene omfatter de siste versjonene av aktive og nevneverdige distribusjoner, men dekker ikke hvert operativsystems særpreg, betautgaver og testutgaver, og sammenligner heller ikke Linuxdistribusjoner med andre operativsystemer.

Generelt 

Basic general information about the distributions: creator or producer, release date, the latest version, and such. References are not added here but can be found in respective articles.

Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column.

Tekniske detaljer 
The table below shows the default file system, but many Linux distributions support some or all of ext2, ext3, ext4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, JFS, XFS, GFS2, OCFS2, and NILFS. It is possible to install Linux onto most of these file systems. The ext file systems, namely ext2, ext3, and ext4 are based on the original Linux file system.

File systems have been developed by companies to meet their specific needs, by hobbyists, or adapted from Unix, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. Linux has full support for XFS and JFS, FAT (the DOS file system), and HFS, the main file system for the Macintosh. Support for Microsoft Windows NT's NTFS file system has been developed and is now comparable with other native Unix file systems. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs' ISO 9660 and Universal Disk Format (UDF) are supported.

Unlike other operating systems, Linux and Unix allow any file system regardless of the medium it is stored on, whether that medium is a magnetic disk, an optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.), a USB flash memory key, or even contained within a file located on another file system. Similarly, many C compilers (mainly GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)), init systems (mainly sysvinit), desktop environments and window managers are widely supported.

Datamaskinarkitekturer

Pakkehåndtering og installasjon
Information on features in the distributions. Package numbers are only approximate (some distributions like Ubuntu tend to separate tools into different packages (usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug).

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Sikkerhet

Se også
 Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
 Comparison of operating systems
 DistroWatch
 List of Linux distributions

Referanser

Eksterne lenker
 LWN.net Linux Distribution List
 Linux free distros (Free Software Foundation)