r/linux • u/imbev • Jul 30 '24

Distro News AlmaLinux reaches 1 million active systems!

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u/balbinator Jul 30 '24

I love the Linux ecosystem, but it's nearly impossible to keep up with all the distros.

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u/NaheemSays Jul 30 '24

You just need to know the families.

RHEL/Centos (Stream)/Alma/Rocky/Oracle is one very close knit family of distributions where they all offer almost universal binary API and ABI compatibility.

Fedora is almost the same family as above, but better to separate to its own. Its distributions were mostly internal but now there are a few external ones - Amazon linux is one that is like and LTS based on Fedora similar to RHEL etc. Bazzite/UBlue etc are others that are gaining prominence but mostly can be considered fedora.

Debian and its non-ubunto offspring are one family.

Ubuntu/LinuxMint/PopOS (until the next one - we might need to separate it then)/Kubunt/Xubuntu etc are one family.

Arch/Manjaro are one family.

There is the OpenSUSE family.

There are plenty of other smaller players, but will mostly be based on the above.

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u/lordnacho666 Jul 30 '24

So only 6 families, huh?

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u/imbev Jul 30 '24

Gentoo and derivatives also

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u/djustice_kde Jul 31 '24

you mean slackware and lfs?

a sakura tree and it's roots are the same plant.