Linux 101 - Which distro to Choose

How to choose your Linux Distro:

1. Are you a business runner who counts on Linux system(s) and you want a good support contract? 
 Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL)

2. You want Red Hat but you are not interested in having support?

CentOS 

3. You want Red Hat on your laptop/desktop?  
Fedora
  
4. You want a personal graphical desktop to play movies, music and games?  
Linux Mint
 
5. You want a Distro that suitably works on servers, laptops, and any other device?  
Debian 

6. Are you looking for a very popular Linux distro, based on Debian? 
Ubuntu 

7. Do you want a pointy-clicky hacking interface?  
Kali

8. Advanced user? OK! go ahead 
Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Scientific,


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Linux 101 - Current Linux Distributions

Linux distribution is a a collection of open source software and shortly it's called Distro.

Distro provides secured and easy software management and sometimes a specific operations purpose.


Some popular Linux Distributions.

1. RedHat

A billion $ commercial Linux company which has hundreds of Linux specialists known for excellent support.

They provide RedHat Enterprise Linux and Fedora for free.

2. Ubuntu

Canonical Ltd. UK-based software company started sending out free Ubuntu in 2004 which quickly came popular Linux distru for home users.

Ubuntu is a graphical interfaced Linux distru that doesn't require using command line.

3. Debian

has no company behind but thousands of well organized developers that elect a Debian Project Leader every 2 years.

It's seen as one of the most stable Linux distros.

4. Other Distros

CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Scientific Linux are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and share many of the same principles, directories and system administration techniques.

Linux Mint, Edubuntu and many other *buntu named distributions are based on Ubuntu and thus share a lot with Debian.

There are hundreds of other Linux distributions.


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