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Technical variations include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational differences may be motivated by historical reasons. Other criteria include security, including how quickly security upgrades are available; ease of package management; and number of packages available.

These tables compare each noteworthy distribution's latest stable release on wide-ranging objective criteria. It does not cover each operating system's Subjective Merits , branches marked as unstable or beta, nor compare Linux distributions with other operating systems.


GENERAL

Basic general information about the distributions: creator or producer, release date and latest version, and so forth.


LEGAL

Information on legal aspects of the distributions.


TECHNICAL

Information on technical aspects of the distributions.


ARCHITECTURE SUPPORT



FEATURES

Information on features in the distributions.


SECURITY FEATURES










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