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Linux distributions can be broadly divided into two categories:

A distribution maintained by ● Commercial, represented by the famous Red Hat

Distribution maintained by the ● community organization, represented by Debian.

It's hard to say which of a large number of Linux versions is better, each with its own characteristics. The following is to introduce several commonly used Linux distributions.

1) Red Hat Linux

Red Hat (Red Hat) was founded in 1993, is currently the world's senior Linux manufacturers, but also the most recognized Linux brand.

Red Hat's products mainly include RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, paid version) and CentOS (community clone version of RHEL, free version) and Fedora Core (developed from Red Hat desktop version, free version).

Red Hat is the most widely used Linux version in China, and it is rich in materials. If you do not understand anything, it is easy to find people to ask for advice, and most Linux tutorials take Red Hat as an example to explain (including this tutorial).

This tutorial takes CentOS, a Linux distribution commonly used by domestic Internet companies in China, as an example. It is a product of recompiling and removing the Red Hat trademark based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. There is no difference between the paid version and the paid version, and it is completely free. The disadvantage is that it does not provide technical support to users and does not bear any business responsibility. Powerful companies can choose a paid version.

2) Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu based on the well-known Debian Linux developed, user-friendly, easy to use, hardware support is very comprehensive, is the most suitable for desktop Linux distribution, and all distributions of Ubuntu are available free of charge.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, is a very legendary figure. He founded a security consulting firm after graduating from college, which was acquired for $575 million in 1999, making him the youngest and brightest homegrown millionaire in South Africa. As an avid astronomer, Mark Shuttleworth spent eight days aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft on the International Space Station in 2002. After that, Mark Shuttleworth founded the Ubuntu Community, established the Ubuntu Foundation on July 1, 2005, and invested US $10 million in the foundation. What he saw in space, he said, was the spirit in which he founded Ubuntu. Today, his favorite thing is to go around giving promotional speeches for the free and open source Ubuntu.

3) SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux, based on Slackware Linux, was originally a version of Linux released by SuSE Linux AG in Germany. In 1994, it released the first version, and the early version was only a commercial version. After being acquired by Novell in 2004, it established the OpenSUSE community and launched its own community version OpenSUSE.

SuSE Linux is popular in Europe, and it is also widely used in China. It is worth mentioning that it absorbs many of the characteristics of Red Hat Linux.

SuSE Linux can easily interact with Windows, with excellent hardware detection, friendly installation process and graphic management tools, which is very convenient for end users and administrators.

4) Gentoo Linux

Gentoo was originally created by Daniel Robbins, one of the developers of FreeBSD, and the first stable version was released in 2002. Gentoo is the most complex installation of all Linux distributions, and so far it still uses source packages to compile and install the operating system.

However, it is the most manageable version after installation and the fastest version running in the same hardware environment. Since the advent of Gentoo 1.0, it has been like a storm, bringing great surprises to the Linux world and attracting a large number of users and developers into the arms of Gentoo Linux.

Some people say that Gentoo is fast, clean and flexible, and it is famous for its high degree of customization (source code-based distribution). Although you can choose a precompiled package during installation, most users who use Gentoo choose to compile it manually. This is why Gentoo is suitable for veterans who have more experience with Linux.

It is important to note that because it takes a lot of time to compile software, it may take a long time if you compile all your software yourself and install larger packages such as the KDE desktop.

5) other Linux distributions

In addition to the above four Linux distributions, there are many others. Table 1 lists several common Linux distributions and their respective features:

This is the end of the introduction of the common distribution versions of linux. I hope the above content can be of some help to you and can learn more knowledge. If you think the article is good, you can share it for more people to see.

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