All the distributions listed on this page are either in the Red Hat ecosystem
- The package format is RPM
- The package managers are YUM or DNF
The most popular distributions on the page are
- Fedora
- RHEL
All the the following distros are part of the RHEL ecosystem
- Fedora Popular
- This is the free testing ground upstream of RHEL
- Gnome DE just like Ubuntu
- Linus Torvalds uses Fedora for himself and his family
- I tested this distro, it works very well and seems mature and refined, but I would not use it unless I needed to operate within the Red Hat environment because I am more familiar with Debian/Ubuntu.
- Fedora Spins
- Spins provide all the other desktop environments
- If I needed to operate in the Red Hat RPM world, I would happily select the Fedora KDE Plasma spin
- Fedora Kinoite
- Immutable desktop that uses KDE Plasma DE
- This is a very interesting distro
- CentOS Stream
- Rolling distribution
- Midstream between Fedora and RHEL
- New distro as of 2020 December after Red Hat killed off CentOS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux - POPULAR
- Oldest Linux Distro #4 after SUSE
- Highly stable
- USA
- The world leader in enterprise server and cloud linux
- Purchased by IBM as of 2019
- This does not make them evil
- This may be the best Linux server and workstation OS
- Can get a free version
- CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System)
- EOL as of 2020 December
- The free and non-supported exact version of RHEL
- Rocky Linux
- Copy of RHEL
- Alma Linux
- Copy of RHEL
- ClearOS
- Copy of RHEL
- Qubes OS
- Focused on security
- Downstream of Fedora
- Offered with Purism and NovaCustom laptops
- Yellow Dog Linux
- EOL
- Downstream of RHEL
- Was my first Linux distro that actually worked, I used it from 1999-2002 on my Apple iMac G3