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Due to the large number and variety of available Linux Distribution s, they are all grouped under a single entry; see Comparison Of Linux Distributions for a detailed comparison. There are also a variety of BSD operating systems, covered in Comparison Of BSD Operating Systems . For information on views of each operating system, see Operating System Advocacy .




- All tables in this article are meant to be sorted alphabetically
- All tables should list the same operating systems. If you add an OS, please add it to ALL tables.
- The unfixed bug count in the security table is updated automatically by User:SecuniBot. There is no
need to update that column manually, except to add the link to the secunia.com page corresponding to
an OS the first time. See below.
- Please have a look at the conventions used in existing table entries when adding new data. E.g.
the "Target system type" column should list systems types like "Server", "Workstation", "Home Desktop",
"Network Appliance".
- It's not necessary to list all architectures in the "supported architectures" columns. Just list the primary
ones (maybe up to five) and add "some others" or "N others" or something like that if there are more.
Specifically, its not necessary to add an arch to this list just because an experimental port exists.
Listed archs should be fully supported.
- The same goes for filesystems, just list the important ones.
- Use "?" or the {inc} template for missing data, not "-". "-" is used to mean "none" / "n/a" in these tables.
- Some systems that have been removed from this comparison by consensus on the talk page. Please refer
to the discussion there before re-adding them: AmigaOS, BeOS, Reactos






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