Variants of Linux! Most popular and useful distros
Updated on April 14, 2021
Variants of Linux
- There are hundreds of variants of Linux
- For you, which is best linux?
- To answer this, it depends on factors like
- Skills
- Area of focus
- Support Required
- Hardware you are using
- Softwares you need to use
- Here are top Linux distributions
- Ubuntu
- Most popular distro
- Announced in 2004
- Uses Debian
- Have app like firefox, open office
- Have remixes like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc
- For beginners
- Fedora
- Free version of Red Hat
- Strong on enterprise feature
- Security is excellent
- Linux Mint
- Ubuntu based
- Released on 2006
- Variety of graphical tools
- Good for beginning users
- openSUSE
- medium on difficulty level
- targeted for open source developers and system admins
- PCLinuxOS
- Uses KDE environment
- Light weight version of mandriva
- Supports graphic driver, browser plugins
- Debian
- 1993
- One of the well tested
- Bug free distro
- Suitable for linux experienced
- Slow release cycle
- CentOS
- Based on RHEL
- Kali Linux
- Debian based
- Designed fr penetration testing
- Used for digital forensics
- Meant for nmap, metasploit framework, maltego, aircrack ng etc
- For cybersecurity experts
- Mandriva
- Gentoo
- Arch Linux
- Lightweight
- Flexible
- For advanced users
- Ubuntu
