One line distribution summaries
One line summaries for the top distributions of Linux.
- Slackware, simple, minimal but you're in charge
- Debian, most stable and powerful, used as base of over 500 distributions
- Arch, advanced and powerful, for people who want to be educated or experts
- Fedora, has the latest updates, and is sponsored by major Linux company Red Hat
- Ubuntu, easy and highly popular distribution, ultimately based on Debian
- Linux Mint, most popular distribution, easiest for new users (based on Ubuntu)
- LMDE 2, Linux Mint Debian Edition 2, like Linux Mint only based on Debian instead of Ubuntu