Everybody knew that, Linux is hot on web because, in real world most of the website (85%) hosted & served from LINUX with Apache. This will saves our money (licensing and maintenance costs) and giving high level security to avoid server and websites damage from hackers, anti virus, Trojans and malware. I’m going to explain about TOP 7 Linux Server Distributions and its details. Most Linux distributions, support the x86 architecture and also support its evolution of x86-64 architecture.I’m continuously analysing / searching to add new fields to give all the details.
TOP 7 Linux Server Distributions are below.
1. Ubuntu – (uu-BUUN-too)
2. Redhat
3. OPenSUSE
4. Debian
5. CentOS – Community Enterprise Operating System
6. Linux Mint
7. Fedora – (formerly Fedora Core)
| Linux Dist/Details | CentOS/ Redhat/ Fedora | Debian/ Ubuntu/ Linux Mint | OPenSUSE |
| Initial Release | 14-May-2004/13-May-1995/16-Nov-2003 | 16-Aug-1993/20-Oct-2004/27-Aug-2006 | Oct-2005 |
| Official Website | www.centos.org/www.redhat.com/fedoraproject.org | www.debian.org/www.ubuntu.com/linuxmint.com | www.opensuse.org |
| Latest stable release | 1-Dec-2013/21-Nov-2013/17-Dec-2013 | 8-Feb-2014/17-Oct-2013/30-Nov-2013 | 19-Nov-2013 |
| Latest Version | 6.5/6.5/Fedora 20 | 7.4(Wheezy)/13.10 Saucy Salamander/Linux Mint 16 (“Petra”) | 13.1 |
| Package manager | RPM | dpkg | RPM |
| Install/Update method | yum | APT (.deb debian based files (apt-get)) | ZYpp (YaST) |
| Supported architectures | x86, x86-64/x86, x86-64/amd64, i386 | i386, AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS, S390, IA-64/x86, x86-64/x86, x86-64 | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Distribution Based on | RedHat & RHEL/Unix/RedHat & RHEL | Unix/Debian/Ubuntu | SUSE Linux |
| Default File System | EXT 4 | EXT 4 | EXT 4 |
| USB Installation | YES | YES | YES |
| Live CD Installation | YES | YES | YES |
