- In this video, I'm going to give you an overview
of Linux distributions.
So it all started with the GNU utilities
plus the Linux kernel.
And you don't want to do that for yourself.
Well, if you wanted to do it for yourself,
that we call Linux From Scratch.
But Linux From Scratch is really not something
that I would recommend.
It's complicated.
If we talk about major distributions,
there are two big developments.
Development number one is Red Hat.
So Red Hat actually started quite early.
And Red Hat has become
the number one most successful Linux distribution around.
Based on Red Hat, we have different other distributions.
There is for instance CentOS
and Fedora.
Fedora is the open source platform.
Fedora feeds into CentOS.
And CentOS is the continuous development platform
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Now from Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
there are some free Linux distributions available as well.
And these free Linux distributions are Rocky Linux,
and they are AlmaLinux.
So if you look at the development cycle,
it all starts with Fedora, then comes CentOs,
then there is Red Hat.
Red Hat is the successful product,
but for companies, people that don't want to pay
for Red Hat functionality, there is Rocky,
there is AlmaLinux.
It's all the same.
And let's not forget
that there's another major Linux distribution
that is derived from Red Hat,
and that is Oracle.
Oracle Linux, in fact, is a Red Hat Linux distribution.
The other important development is Debian.
Debian is also one of the early distributions,
and Debian has become the foundation
for some very important distribution, and that is Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is one of the major distributions
that we are going to use here in this course.
And based on Ubuntu,
there are other Linux distributions as well.
They are derived from Ubuntu,
and we should mention Linux Mint, for instance.
And we should mention Kali Linux.
Kali Linux is really security oriented,
and Linux Mint was created
because it has a nicer graphical interface.
These are the main distributions family.
There are other distributions around,
and you may come across,
but this is what really matters nowadays.