
These devices usuallyĬontain proprietary software, and some of the available apps are In the wild in phones, tablets and other devices. Service and support contracts for their products, others are communityĪndroid is Linux without any GNU.

They generally support several architectures and are Leading distributions have usually been around for a while and are Maintenance of this list ends December 31, 2021. Small, specialized and generalized, old and new. We do hope you will enjoy thisĬelebration of Linux diversity, with distributions large and We once hoped that this list would move to a searchable database, however Link-checking effort that took place in May 2020, resulting in a smaller Many thanks to Andrew Cater for a massive Since then, however new distributions are added when found, deadĭistributions are removed when found, and link checking remains an A table ofĬontents was added on May 9, 2002.

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