Distro (30)

• CentOS Stream - The CentOS Project (centos.org) tool
  continuously delivered midstream between Fedora and RHEL, tracking just ahead of RHEL development
  Enterprise Linux Fedora #
• About AlmaLinux Wiki | AlmaLinux Wiki (wiki.almalinux.org) reference
  Docs hub for the forever-free RHEL-binary-compatible rebuild, run by a non-profit foundation
  Enterprise Linux Nonprofit #
• Oracle Linux - Oracle Linux (Oracle Help Center) reference
  release documentation for Oracle Linux and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
  Enterprise Linux System Administration #
• Oracle Linux (oracle.com) tool
  RHEL-compatible distro free to download, use and redistribute, with paid Premier Support alongside
  Commercial Support Enterprise Linux Free Tier #
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/ (docs.aws.amazon.com) reference
  AL2023 user guide and release notes for AWS's RPM-based distribution, plus legacy AL2 and AL1
  Public Cloud RPM #
• Understanding Linux (redhat.com) article
  Vendor explainer on what Linux is: distro choice, Fedora versus RHEL, cloud and high-availability uses
  Enterprise Linux Red Hat #
• Home - Documentation (docs.rockylinux.org) reference
  docs hub for the RHEL-compatible rebuild: install, build and day-to-day admin guides, no cost
  Enterprise Linux System Administration #
• openSUSE Documentation (openSUSE Documentation) reference
  Leap release notes with startup, reference, security, tuning, virtualization and AutoYaST manuals
  SUSE System Administration #
• Alpine User Handbook - Alpine Linux Documentation (docs.alpinelinux.org) reference
  musl and BusyBox distro: install-to-disk steps and system components for desktop and server
  Alpine Linux System Administration #
• Sidero Labs | Makers of Talos Linux and Omni (Sidero Labs) tool
  immutable Kubernetes OS with no sshd, shell or package manager: read-only root, gRPC/mTLS API, ~50 binaries
  Bare Metal Provisioning Kubernetes Security Hardening #
• Debian Wiki (wiki.debian.org)
  Community-maintained documentation for Debian systems
  Debian #
• Debian -- About Debian (debian.org) article
  Volunteer association behind a 70000-package OS running Linux, FreeBSD or Hurd kernels with GNU userland
  Debian Package Manager #
• Arch Linux - About (archlinux.org) tool
  Independent rolling-release x86-64 distro: minimal base, shell-file config, pacman and the AUR
  Arch Linux Package Manager #
• Fedora Linux (fedoraproject.org) tool
  Red Hat's upstream community distro: GNOME Workstation plus alternative spins, forums and contributor docs
  Desktop Environment #
• openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers (openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers) tool
  Leap and Tumbleweed flavours: rolling or immutable, Btrfs snapshots, full-disk encryption, opt-in codecs
  Desktop Environment #
• About the Ubuntu project | Ubuntu (Ubuntu) article
  Origin of the project, Mark Shuttleworth's founding role and how Canonical stewards the distribution
  Debian #
• About Linux Mint - Linux Mint (linuxmint.com) article
  Ubuntu-based desktop distribution pitched at Windows and macOS switchers; project history from 2006 onward
  Debian Desktop Environment #
• About Gentoo – Gentoo Linux (gentoo.org) reference
  Source-based metadistribution compiled and tuned per machine via Portage; elected council governance
  Build From Source Gentoo #
• The Revised Slackware Book Project (slackbook.org) reference
  Community rewrite of Slackware Linux Essentials; CC BY-SA, DocBook sources in git, beta readable
  Slackware #
• about | Alpine Linux (alpinelinux.org) article
  musl and BusyBox base sized for containers: apk packaging, OpenRC init, PIE-hardened userland
  Container Security Hardening #
• Nix & NixOS | Declarative builds and deployments (nixos.org) tool
  Isolated reproducible builds, safe rollbacks and declarative machine config; 140,000+ Nixpkgs packages
  Configuration Management Nix Package Manager #
• Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system (Qubes OS) tool
  Compartmentalises work into Xen VMs, with Whonix for anonymity and room for a Windows guest
  Anonymity Security Hardening Virtualization #
• Tails - How Tails works (tails.net) tool
  Amnesic live USB system that leaves nothing on disk and pushes all traffic through Tor
  Anonymity Privacy #
• What is Kali Linux? | Kali Linux Documentation (Kali Linux) reference
  Debian-based distribution preloading hundreds of offensive-security, forensics and reversing tools
  Debian Penetration Testing #
• DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. (distrowatch.com) reference
  index of hundreds of Linux and BSD distributions, browsable one by one from a single selector
  Hacker Culture #
• ArchWiki (wiki.archlinux.org) reference
  Install guide, application indexes and deep configuration articles used well beyond Arch itself
  Arch Linux Configuration Management #
• Gentoo Wiki (wiki.gentoo.org) reference
  Community-editable docs hub: handbooks, portage and project pages for installing and running Gentoo
  Build From Source Gentoo #
• Welcome to Linux From Scratch! (linuxfromscratch.org) reference
  book set for building a system from source: base LFS plus beyond, automated, multilib and gaming variants
  Build From Source Kernel #
• Flatpak (Flatpak) tool
  Sandboxed app bundles on shared runtimes, distributed via Flathub; one build for every distro
  Desktop Environment Package Manager #
• Snapcraft - Snaps are universal Linux packages (Snapcraft) tool
  Canonical's app store and packaging format: dependencies bundled, auto-updating, same across distributions
  Package Manager #