100 Great reasons to use Linux!

Well, in fact, there may be more. But, here I am giving you the list of top 100 Linux distributions – they are tailor made for your different requirement. Just hunt down a little and you will get a Linux distribution that will perfectly suit your Hardware-Software requirement.

For example, I tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Knoppix but finally settled for Sabayon because it had most drivers for my LAPTOP COMPAQ PRESSARIO V3000. It had out of the box support for most hardware including Nvidia 3d Graphic.

Here is the list : (List courtesy http://distrowatch.com/)

Sl. No. Distribution

1 PCLinuxOS

2 Ubuntu

3 openSUSE

4 Fedora

5 Sabayon

6 Mint

7 Debian

8 Mandriva

9 MEPIS

10 Damn Small

11 Slackware

12 CentOS

13 Zenwalk

14 Gentoo

15 Kubuntu

16 Puppy

17 KNOPPIX

18 Arch

19 Freespire

20 Dreamlinux

21 FreeBSD

22 Ubuntu Studio

23 Vector

24 sidux

25 Xubuntu

26 PC-BSD

27 SLAX

28 Elive

29 DesktopBSD

30 Red Hat

31 Ubuntu CE

32 Absolute

33 Xandros

34 Foresight

35 64 Studio

36 SAM

37 Nexenta

38 Fluxbuntu

39 linuX-gamers

40 Frugalware

41 BackTrack

42 Yoper

43 Pioneer

44 GeeXboX

45 Solaris

46 KANOTIX 1

47 OpenBSD

48 KateOS

49 Scientific

50 Yellow Dog

51 Musix

52 Wolvix

53 SystemRescue

54 Linspire

55 Pardus

56 Novell SLE

57 Ark

58 DragonFly

59 Parsix

60 GParted

61 GoblinX

62 Granular

63 SmoothWall

64 MCNLive

65 JackLab

66 NetBSD

67 FreeNAS

68 Berry

69 TinyMe

70 Linux XP

71 ClarkConnect

72 VideoLinux

73 IPCop

74 DeLi

75 Turbolinux

76 LFS

77 Lunar

78 Feather

79 BLAG

80 SME Server

81 Edubuntu

82 BeleniX

83 m0n0wall

84 EnGarde

85 Bluewhite64

86 Skolelinux

87 dyne:bolic

88 Symphony OS

89 NimbleX

90 AUSTRUMI

91 Helix

92 Vine

93 SaxenOS

94 gNewSense

95 Gentoox

96 FoX Desktop

97 Pentoo

98 LiveCD Router

99 Devil

100 Ulteo

 

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

openBSD is not a Linux "distro" or uses the Linux kernel! same goes for Solaris

Kris said...

Hi Raviratlam,
Just to let you know:
Linux Distributions, are running the Linux kernel, that's what Linux is; a kernel.

FreeBSD, PCBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DesktopBSD, and FreeNAS are all running BSD based kernel's, and Solaris uses it's own kernel.
Your certainly right about there is an Operating System out there to suit you, however they are just not all Linux.

Have fun using Sabayon,
Cheers Kris

रवि रतलामी said...

Kris,
I very well know that BSD and Solaris had different Kernel. But an end user (who is not so geeky,) SEE only the FRONTEND - the GUI or the command TERMINAL. He see either KDE or GNOME or XFCE or FLUXBOX and so on...

That is what I meant...