Listed below are the top seven Linux operating systems for 2011 years.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an operating system built by a global, professional development team. It contains all the applications you need: browsers, Office suites, multimedia programs, instant messaging, and more. Ubuntu is an open source alternative to Windows and Office.
Ubuntu's name comes from the word "Ubuntu" in Southern African Zulu or Hausa (translated into my Help or the Bantu), meaning "human nature", "my existence is because of the existence of everyone."
Mandriva Linux
Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux) was created in 1998 with the aim of making Linux easier for everyone. Linux was already known for its strength and stability as an operating system, but it required people to have strong expertise and a lot of command-line operations. MandrakeSoft that this is an opportunity to integrate the best graphical desktop environment and its own graphical interface configuration tool into Linux, and is quickly known for its ease-of-use and functional standards.
PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS is a fully open Linux version, after the tireless efforts of the PCLinuxOS development team, is becoming more and more popular Linux enthusiasts attention. Adhering to the "easy-to-use, safe and hassle-free" concept, PCLinuxOS gradually grew into a stable, mature version. Without the help of large companies, PCLinuxOS's development team miraculously pushed such a civilian Linux version to the top of the Linux world, and let Linux open-source, free spirit of the ultimate glory.
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux is a universal, fast, and completely free Linux distribution for developers and online professionals. Unlike other distributions, Gentoo Linux has a suite of advanced package management systems called Portage. In the BSD ports tradition, Portage is a true auto-import system, but Gentoo's Portage is written in Python, and it has many advanced features, including file dependencies, fine-grained package management, OpenBSD-style virtual installation, security offload, System framework files, virtual packages, configuration file management, and so on.
OpenSUSE
The openSUSE project is a community program funded by Novell Corporation. To facilitate the popularization of Linux in all aspects, the program provides free, easy access to openSUSE's complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: making openSUSE the most accessible and widely available Linux distribution for anyone, leveraging open source software syndication to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for novice and senior Linux users , significantly simplifies and opens its development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software providers.
Debian
The Debian program is a cooperative organization dedicated to creating a free operating system. The operating system we created is named Debian Gnu/linux, which is referred to as Debian.
An operating system is a collection of basic programs and tools that enable a computer to run, the most important of which is called the kernel (kernel). The kernel is the most important program in your computer, responsible for all the basic scheduling tasks and lets you run other programs.
Freebsd
FreeBSD is a free-class UNIX operating system, which is an important branch of Unix-like, developed by BSD, 386BSD and 4.4BSD. FreeBSD has more than 200 active developers and thousands of contributors.
FreeBSD is considered to be an unknown giant in the free operating system. It is not Unix, but runs like Unix and has UNIX-compatible system APIs. As an operating system, FreeBSD is considered fairly robust.
The top seven Linux operating systems in 2011.