Linux发行版比较
概况

各发行版的基本信息：创造者或生产者，发行日期，最新版本等等。
| 发行版 | 创造者 | 维护者 | 首次公开发行年份 | 最新稳定版本 | 安全性更新（年） | 最近更新日期 | System distribution commitment | 基础发行版 | 目的 | 價格 | 状态 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AlmaLinux | AlmaLinux Foundation | AlmaLinux Foundation | 2021 | 9.0 | 10 years | 2022-05-26 | X | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | server, workstation | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Alpine Linux | Alpine Linux Team | Alpine Linux Team | 2006 | 3.16.0 | ? | 2022-05-23 | X | LEAF Project | security, lightweight, general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| ALT Linux | ALT Linux Team | ALT Linux Team, ALT Linux LLC | 2001 | 10.0 | ? | 11 October | X | Mandrake Linux | general, school | 免費 | 活跃 |
| antiX | Anticapitalista | Anticapitalista | 2007 | 19.4 | ? | 2021-05-21 | X | Debian, MEPIS | old computers | 部分免費 | 活跃 |
| ArchBang | Willensky Aristide | Stan McLaren | 2011 | 滾動 | 滾動 | ? | X | Arch Linux (UKM Edition) | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Arch Linux | Judd Vinet | dev team | 2002 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 滾動 | X | 独立，从CRUX获得灵感 | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| BLAG | Brixton Linux Action Group | Brixton Linux Action Group | 2002 | 140k | ? | 2011-05-04 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Fedora | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Bodhi Linux | Bodhi Linux Team | Bodhi Linux Team | 2011 | 5.0.0 | ? | 2018-08-22 | X | Debian, Ubuntu | desktop, lightweight | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Canaima | CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community | CANTV / CNTI / CENTIDEL / Edelca / VIT / FUNDACITE / Free software community | 2007 | 6.1 | ? | 2020-06-24 | X | Debian, Ubuntu | Government of Venezuela | 免費 | 活跃 |
| CentOS | CentOS Project | CentOS Project | 2003 | 8.2-2105 | 10年 | 2021-11-16 | X | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | server, workstation | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Chakra | Jan Mette and Arch Linux KDEmod developers | The Chakra Project Team | 2010 | 滾動 | 滾動 | ? | X | Arch Linux | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Chrome OS | Sundar Pichai | Google | 2009 | 102.0.5005.75 | 6.5年 | 2022-05-27 | X | Chromium OS | web applications | 免費 | 活跃 |
| ClearOS | Peter Baldwin | ClearFoundation | 2000 | 7.8.0 | ? | 2020-06-23 | X | RHEL, CentOS | server, gateway, network | 部分免費 | 活跃 |
| CrunchBang Linux | Philip Newborough | Philip Newborough | 2008 | 11 | ? | 2013-05-06 | X | Debian | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Damn Small Linux | John Andrews | dev team | 2003 | 4.4.10 | ? | 2008-11-18 | X | Debian, Knoppix | lightweight, portable | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Debian | Ian Murdock | Debian Project | 1993 | 11.3 | ~3年 | 2022-03-26 | Debian Social Contract and DFSG (main is 100% free, non-free packages are optional) | Softlanding Linux System (SLS) | general, server, desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Debian Edu |  | Debian Project | 2004 | 11.2 | ~3年 | 2021-12-18 | Debian Social Contract and DFSG | Debian | schools | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Devuan | The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA) | The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA) | 2016 | 2.1 | ? | 2019-11-25 | X  | Debian | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Deepin | Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. | Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. | 2004 | 20.6 | ? | 2022-05-31 | ? | Debian(current), Ubuntu, Morphix(formerly) | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre | Matias A. Fonzo | Matias A. Fonzo | 2009 | 3.0-beta1 | ? | 2019-10-16 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Independent, inspired from Slackware | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| dyne:bolic | Jaromil | Jaromilx | 2005 | 3.0.0 | ? | 2011-09-08 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Debian | multimedia | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Elementary OS | Daniel Foré | elementary LLC | 2011 | 6.1 | ? | 2021-12-19 | X | Ubuntu, Debian | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| ELinOS | SYSGO | SYSGO | 1999 | 7.0 | ? | 2020-03-01 | X | – | embedded systems | 部份 | 活跃 |
| Emdebian Grip | Embedded Debian Project | Embedded Debian Project | 2009 | 3.1 | 產品壽命結束 | 2013-06-15 | X | Debian | embedded systems | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| EndeavourOS | Bryan Poerwoatmodjo | EndeavourOS | 2019 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 2019-07-15 | X | Arch Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Fedora | Fedora專案 | Fedora Project | 2003 | 36 | 1 year | 2022-05-06 | Fedora Licensing Guidelines | Red Hat Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Freespire | Lindows.com, Inc. | PC/OpenSystems LLC | 2001 | 8.0.1 | ? | 2022-01-12 | X | Ubuntu | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Gentoo Linux | Daniel Robbins | Gentoo Foundation, Inc. | 2002 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 滾動 | Gentoo Social Contract | Enoch Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Guix | Ludovic Courtès | Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus, the Guix community | 2012 | 1.3.0 | 滾動 | 2021-05-11 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | – | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| gNewSense | Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley | Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the FSF | 2006 | 4.0 (Ucclia) | ? | 2016-05-02 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Debian | general, server | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| gnuLinEx | Regional Government of Extremadura | dev team | 2002 | LinEx 2013 | ? | 2013-02-11 | X | Debian | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Grml | Michael Prokop | The Grml Team | 2005 | 2021.07 | ? | 2021-07-26 | X | Debian | live, maintenance, security, network, forensic, accessibility | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre | Hyperbola Founders | Hyperbola Founders | 2017 | 0.3 | 穩定版3年，舊穩定版5年 | 2019-09-23 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG followed in Hyperbola Social Contract | Arch Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Instant WebKiosk | Marco Buratto | Binary Emotions | 2012 | 16.0 | ? | 2017-04-05 | X | Debian | web kiosks, digital signage, personal web navigation | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Kali Linux | Max Moser, Mati Aharoni, Martin J. Muench | Offensive Security | 2013 | 2022.3 | ? | 2022-08-09 | X | Debian | auditing, forensic, security, network | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Knoppix | Klaus Knopper | dev team | 2000 | 8.6 | ? | 2019-08-08 | X | Debian | live | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Kodibuntu | The XBMC Project | Team Kodi | 2008 | ? | ? | ? | X | Debian, Ubuntu | multimedia | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Korora | Chris Smart | Dev Team | 2005 | 26 | ? | 2017-09-16 | X | Fedora | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| LibreCMC | LibreCMC team | LibreCMC team | 2010 | 1.5.4 | ? | 2020-12-31 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Merged from LibreWRT | embedded systems | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Linspire | Linspire, Inc. | Linspire, Inc. | 2001 | 9.5 | ? | 2020-03-03 | X | Ubuntu | ? | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| Linux Mint | Clement Lefebvre | dev team | 2006 | 20.2 | ~3年 (LMDE)； 5年（主要版本） | 2021-07-08 | X | Debian(LMDE)， Ubuntu（主要版本） | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Linux Lite | Jerry Bezencon | Linux Lite Team | 2012 | 5.0 | ? | 2020-05-31 | X | Ubuntu | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Mageia | Mageia Community | mageia.org | 2010 | 7.1 | 1 year | 2019-07-01 | X | Mandriva Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Mandriva Linux | Mandrakesoft S.A. | Mandriva S.A. | 1998 | 2011 | ? | 2011-08-28 | X | Red Hat Linux | general | 部分免費 | 不活跃 |
| Manjaro Linux | Roland Singer | dev team | 2012 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 滾動 | X | Arch Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| MEPIS | Warren Woodford | MEPIS LLC | 2003 | 11.9.90 | ? | ? | X | Debian | desktop, server | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Musix GNU+Linux | Musix team | Musix team | 2008 | 3.0.1 | ? | 2014-03-13 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Debian | multimedia | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Netrunner | Blue Systems | dev team | 2009 | 20.01 | 比照Debian | 2020-02-23 | X | Debian | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| NixOS | Eelco Dolstra and Armijn Hemel | NixOS Foundation | 2003 | 21.05 | 0.5年 | 2021-06-01 | X | – | general, server, desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server | Novell | Novell, Inc. dev team | 2003 | OES 2018 SP1 | ? | ? | X | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | server | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| OpenELEC | Stephan Raue, OpenELEC Team | OpenELEC Team | 2011 | 8.0.4 | ? | 2017-06-04 | X | Kodi | multimedia | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| openSUSE | SUSE Linux | openSUSE Project | 2006 | Leap 15.2 | 3年 | 2020-07-02 | X | – | general, desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| OpenWrt | ? | OpenWrt team | 2007 | 21.02.3 | ? | 2022-04-20 | X | – | embedded systems | 免費 | 活跃 |
| OpenMandriva Lx | OpenMandriva Association | OpenMandriva Association | 2013 | 4.1 | ? | 2020-02-01 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Mandriva Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Oracle Linux | Oracle Corporation | Oracle Corporation | 2006 | 8.1 | ? | 2019-11-17 | X | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | server | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Parabola GNU/Linux-libre | Parabola Hackers | Parabola Hackers | 2009 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 2017-05-28 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG followed in Parabola Social Contract | Arch Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Pardus | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) | TÜBİTAK | 2005 | 21.2 | ? | 2022-03-29 | X | Gentoo (2011.2)   Debian | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Parsix | Alan Baghumian | Parsix Project | 2005 | 8.15 | ? | 2017-01-25 | X | Debian | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |

| Parted Magic | Patrick Verner | Parted Magic LLC. | ? | 2020_12_25 | ? | 2020-12-25 | ? | - | live, maintenance | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| PCLinuxOS | Bill Reynolds | dev team | 2003 | 2020.1015 | 半滾動 | 2020-10-14 | X | Mandriva Linux | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Pop! OS | Carl Ritchell | System76 | 2017 | 22.04 | 2 years for LTS releases. 2–3 months after the next release for other releases. | 2022-04-25 | X | Ubuntu | desktop, server, laptop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Pentoo | Michael Zanetta, Rick Farina, Jens Pranaitis | Pentoo | 2005 | 2019.1 | ? | 2019-01-17 | X | Gentoo Linux | auditing, security | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Porteus | Fanthom | Porteus | 2010 | 4.0 | ? | 2018-04-29 | X | Slackware | lightweight, portable | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Puppy Linux | Barry Kauler | Puppy Foundation | 2003 | 8.0 | ? | 2019-04-11 | X | Independent, inspired from Vector linux | lightweight, portable | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Qubes OS | 乔安娜·鲁特克丝卡（英语：） | Invisible Things Lab | 2012 | 4.1.1 | ? | 2022-07-18 | X | Xen and Fedora | security by compartmentalization, desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | Red Hat | Red Hat | 2002 | 8.5 | 10年 | 2021-11-09 | X | Red Hat Linux, Fedora | server, workstation | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| Red Hat Linux | Red Hat | Red Hat | 1995 | 9 | ? | 2003-03-31 | X | – | server, workstation | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| ROSA | ? | LLC NTC IT ROSA | 2011 | R11 | ? | 2019-03-15 | X | Mandriva | server, general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Rocks Cluster Distribution | UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp | UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp | 2000 | 7.0 | ? | 2015-12-01 | X | Red Hat Linux | server, workstation | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Sabayon Linux | Fabio Erculiani | dev team | 2005 | 19.03 | ? | 2019-03-31 | X | Gentoo Linux | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Salix OS | Cyrille Pontvieux, George Vlahavas, Pierrick Le Brun, Thorsten Mühlfelder | Salix team | 2009 | 14.2 | ? | 2016-08-29 | X | Slackware | general | 免費 | ? |
| Scientific Linux | CERN, Fermilab | dev team | 2004 | 7.6 | ? | 2018-12-03 | X | Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | server, workstation | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Slackware | Patrick Volkerding | dev team | 1993 | 15.0 | ? | 2022-02-02 | X | Softlanding Linux System (SLS) | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Slax | Tomas Matejicek | Tomas Matejicek | 2002 | 11.3 | ? | 2022-03-27 | X | Debian, Slackware (until Slax 9) | live | 免費 | 活跃 |
| SliTaz GNU/Linux | Christophe Lincoln | dev team | 2008 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 2017-12-03 | X | Independent | portable | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Solus | Ikey Doherty | dev team | 2005 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 2021-02-03 | X | – | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| SolydXK | Arjen Balfoort | dev team | 2013 | 201902 | Debian軟體包比照Debian | 2019-03-03 | X | Debian | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| SparkyLinux | ? | Sparky Linux team | 2012 | 6.0 | ? | 2021-08-19 | X | Debian | general, video games | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Source Mage GNU/Linux | Ryan Abrams, Eric Schabell | dev team | 2002 | 0.62-11 | ? | 2017-10-22 | Source Mage Social Contract | Sorcerer | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| SteamOS | Valve | Valve | 2013 | 2.195 | ? | 2019-07-19 | X | Debian | video games | 免費 | 活跃 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise | SUSE | SUSE | 2000 | 15SP2 | 各版本13年 | 2020-07-21 | Common code base for x86-64, Power, System z, Arm64 | Slackware, Jurix | edge, workstation, server, supercomputer | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| Tails | ? | Tails Development Team | 2009 | 5.4 | – | Template:2022-08-04 | X | Debian | security-focused aimed for anonymity and privacy | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Tiny Core Linux | Robert Shingledecker | Team Tiny Core | 2009 | 12.0 | ? | 2021-02-17 | X | Independent, inspired from Damn Small Linux | portable | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Tor-ramdisk | Anthony G. Basile | dev team | 2008 | 20170130 | ? | 2017-01-30 | X | Gentoo Linux Embedded, uClibc | Tor server | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Trisquel GNU/Linux | Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) | Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) | Template:2005 | 10.0 | 3 years | 2020-10-16 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Ubuntu LTS | desktop | 免費 | 活跃 |
| TurnKey GNU/Linux | Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri | TurnKey GNU/Linux Team | 2008 | 16.0 Release #12 | Debian軟體包比照Debian；TurnKey軟體包依照目前主要版本的生命週期 | 2020-12-22 | Debian Social Contract and DFSG | Debian | server based software appliance library aiming to balance security and ease of use | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Ubuntu and Derivatives | Canonical Ltd. | Canonical Ltd. | 2004 | 22.04 LTS | 標準版1年，長期支援版5年。Flavor LTS版本為3到5年。 | 2022-04-21 | X | Debian | general, server, desktop, supercomputer, IBM mainframe | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Univention Corporate Server | Univention GmbH | Univention GmbH | 2004 | 5.0-2 | 免費核心版最多6個月；購買維護後最多7年，可參考 | 2022-06-30 | X | Debian | home, business, and school | Core Edition is gratis | 活跃 |
| Ututo | Diego Saravia, Daniel Olivera | UTUTO dev team | 2000 | XS 2012 | ? | 2012-04-27 | 100% Free: GNU FSDG | Ututo XS: Gentoo Linux, Ututo UL: Ubuntu | general | 免費 | ? |
| VectorLinux | Robert S. Lange | dev team | 1999 | VL 7.2 | ? | 2017-08-28 | X | Slackware | desktop | 免費 | 不活跃 |
| Void Linux | Juan Romero Pardines | Juan RP and contributors | 2008 | 滾動 | 滾動 | 2019-11-09 | X | Independent, partially inspired by FreeBSD/NetBSD | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Webconverger | Kai Hendry | Webconverger Limited | 2007 | 35.0 | ? | 2016-05-19 | X | Debian | kiosk software, digital signage | 商業使用 | 活跃 |
| Xandros | Xandros Incorporated | Xandros Incorporated | 2001 | ? | ? | 2007-07-26 | X | Corel Linux | ? | 商業使用 | 不活跃 |
| Zentyal | eBox Technologies | eBox Technologies | 2005 | 7.0 | ? | 2021-03-15 | X | Debian, Ubuntu | small business server | 部分免費 | ? |
| Zenwalk | Jean-Philippe Guillemin | dev team | 2004 | 滾動 | ? | 2020-12-10 | X | Slackware | general | 免費 | 活跃 |
| Zorin OS | Zorin Group | Zorin Group | 2009 | OS 16.1 | ? | 2022-03-10 | X | Ubuntu | general, desktop ,windows & mac-like experience | Zorin OS Lite & Core免費，而Business和Ultimate需要付費 | 活跃 |
| 发行版 | 创造者 | 维护者 | 首次公开发行年份 | 最新稳定版本 | 安全性更新（年） | 最近更新日期 | System distribution commitment | 基础发行版 | 目的 | 價格 | 状态 |
1 2  Debian releases are officially supported for 1 year after the subsequent release, with releases being approximately 2 years apart. The Debian LTS Project provides community based support extending the complete support period to 5 years.
↑  All security updates are in new versions which are released every six weeks.
↑  for more information visit: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel （页面存档备份，存于）