Cost
The following distributions are available for free (without cost):
- aLinux
- Alpine Linux
- ALT Linux
- Annvix
- Arch Linux
- Asianux
- BackTrack
- BLAG Linux and GNU
- Bodhi Linux
- Caixa Mágica
- CentOS
- CRUX
- Damn Small Linux
- Debian
- DeLi Linux
- Devil-Linux
- dyne:bolic
- EasyPeasy
- Edubuntu
- Elive
- EnGarde Secure Linux
- Fedora
- Finnix
- Foresight Linux
- Freespire
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- gNewSense
- gnuLinEx
- GoboLinux
- Gobuntu
- Impi Linux
- Instant WebKiosk
- Kanotix
- Knoppix
- KnoppMyth
- Kubuntu
- Kurumin
- Linux Mint
- Lunar Linux
- Mageia
- MintPPC
- Musix GNU/Linux
- Network Security Toolkit
- NimbleX
- NUbuntu
- openSUSE
- Pardus
- Parsix
- PCLinuxOS
- Platypux
- Puppy Linux
- Oracle Linux
- Sabayon Linux
- Scientific Linux
- sidux
- Slackware
- Slax
- SliTaz GNU/Linux
- Source Mage GNU/Linux
- Symphony OS
- SYS
- Tiny Core Linux (and Micro Core)
- Tor-ramdisk
- Trustix
- Ubuntu
- Ututo
- Super OS
- Xubuntu
- XBMC Live
- Yoper
- Zenwalk
- OpenWrt
The following distributions are in several editions, some that cost money and some that don't: ClearOS, Mandriva Linux, MEPIS, Red Flag Linux and Zentyal.
The following distributions cost money: Novell Open Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rxart, SUSE Linux Enterprise,
The following distribution had at least one version that used to cost money: Caixa Mágica (now freely available), Elive (now freely available), Xandros (discontinued), Linspire (discontinued)
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of Linux Distributions
Famous quotes containing the word cost:
“The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)