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:
“How much would it cost you to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, Huxley College president to con artist Baravelli (Chico Marx)
“Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)