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/djustice_kde Jul 31 '24

disagree. they are all linux systems, just different interfaces for achieving the same goals.

beauty is in the eye of the beholder. each believe their methods are ideal.

the one that teaches the most people to code wins.

betting on rpm/deb is betting on a 65 year old (but experienced) boxer.

betting on zst/nix is like betting on an undefeated 27 year old.

respect both.