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  2. List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. List of software distributions using the Linux kernel This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this ...

  3. AlmaLinux - Wikipedia

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    AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a 501(c) organization, to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The name of the distribution comes from the word "alma", meaning "soul" in Spanish ...

  4. Docker (software) - Wikipedia

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    Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. [5] The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine. [6] It was first released in 2013 and is developed by Docker, Inc. [7]

  5. Linux - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...

  6. Alpine Linux - Wikipedia

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    Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure. [3] It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd.

  7. Comparison of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    AlmaLinux: AlmaLinux OS Foundation AlmaLinux OS Foundation 2021 9.5 [2] 10 years [3] 2024-11-18 X Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) general None Active Alpine Linux: Alpine Linux Team Alpine Linux Team 2006 3.21.2 [4] ? 2025-01-08 X LEAF Project: security, lightweight, general None Active ALT Linux: ALT Linux Team ALT Linux Team, ALT Linux LLC ...

  8. Container Linux - Wikipedia

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    Container Linux provides no package manager as a way for distributing payload applications, requiring instead all applications to run inside their containers. Serving as a single control host, a Container Linux instance uses the underlying operating-system-level virtualization features of the Linux kernel to create and configure multiple containers that perform as isolated Linux systems.

  9. CentOS - Wikipedia

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    A beta version of AlmaLinux was first released on February 1, 2021, [34] and the first stable release of AlmaLinux was published on March 30, 2021. [35] A beta version of Rocky Linux was released on April 30, 2021, [36] and subsequently on June 21, 2021, the stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4 was released. [37]