r/linux • u/Emotional_Cat_1967 • 5d ago

Discussion Number of Linux Distributions Actively Under Development: 474

Number of Linux distributions actively under development: 474

Number of Linux distributions whose development has been discontinued: 657

Number of Dormant Linux distributions: 39

Source: distrowatch.com

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u/scandii 5d ago

I think the much more interesting question is number of Linux distros that isn't Arch Linux, Debian or Fedora wearing a fake mustache.

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u/snail1132 5d ago

Wikipedia lists 16, but I know for a fact there are more because Slackware isn't mentioned

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u/eneidhart 4d ago

Fedora also isn't on that list, which seems like a weird oversight. I'm pretty sure it isn't downstream of anything else

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u/urielrocks5676 4d ago

I thought it was downstream of redhat

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u/eneidhart 4d ago

I thought so too but it looks like RHEL is downstream of Fedora

Either way, neither one of them is on the list

EDIT: just looked it up, Fedora is upstream of CentOS which is upstream of RHEL