Release:
Release for many different purposes and production, (large category can be divided into two types: one is a commercial company maintenance releases, one is maintained by community organizations release) includes support for different computer architecture, for a specific region or language localization, real-time applications, and embedded systems, and even many versions deliberately include only free software. Has over three hundred distributions are actively developed, it releases the most commonly used about twelve.
Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SuSE, Linux Mint, Gentoo, centos.
Contact between different releases and differences:
Fedora is a community-based version of RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux is. Compared to RHEL, Fedora package significantly more packages. One reason is that the diversification of community involvement in Fedora-building; it's not just a company. In this process, CentOS for activities, demonstrations and experiments, because it is the end user's free, and have a Fedora release cycle than the longer (usually release a new version every six months or so).
SUSE, the relationship between the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and openSUSE is similar to the relationship between Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS's.
Debian is the release of many, including upstream, including Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is Linux Mint and other upstream releases. Debian server and desktop fields have a wide range of applications. Debian is a pure open source project and focus on a key point, stability. It also provides the most complete and depots to the user.
(Fedora and centos redhat are derived version, the former is more trendy, suitable for desktop and development, which is more suitable for servers, especially installed oracle, centos is the only choice.
debian is the basis of ubuntu, pkg rpm than the system to be advanced. ubuntu is the integration of related software and work together on the basis of a fixed set of debian on. Long-term maintenance release of ubuntu good for business use.
gentoo, arch, has its own package management system, gentoo is the source package, bsd borrowed from the port, arch is a binary package, equivalent to gentoo and debian combination. )