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#1 Linux family comparision
Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 2:45 am
by Alez
#2 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:27 pm
by Silver
More great info from Dirk
#3 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:03 pm
by Dirk Broer
The Ubuntu family update, the most commonly used:
Flavor |
Ubuntu |
Budgie |
Linux Mint |
Kubuntu |
Ubuntu Mate |
Xubuntu |
Lubuntu |
Architecture |
Armhf, ARM64, PowerPC, i386, x86_64, server only: PPC64el, S390x |
i386, x86_64 |
i386, x86_64 |
i386, x86_64 |
Armhf, powerPC, i386, x86_64 |
i386, x86_64 |
Armhf, powerPC, PPC64el, i386, x86_64 |
Desktop |
Unity |
Budgie |
Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce |
KDE |
Mate |
Xfce |
LXDE |
CPU Req |
2 GHz dual core CPU (better recommended) |
1.5 GHz i386 or x86_64 (better recommended) |
2 GHz i386 or x86_64 (better recommended) |
2 GHz i386 or x86_64 (better recommended) |
Pentium 4 or Pentium M or AMD K8 (Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz or better recommended) |
PAE capable Pentium 4 or Pentium M or AMD K8 (better recommended) |
Pentium 4 or Pentium M or AMD K8 (better recommended) |
RAM Req |
2 GB (more recommended) |
2 GB (more recommended) |
1 GB (more recommended) |
2 GB (more recommended) |
2 GB (more recommended) |
1 GB (more recommended) |
1 GB (more recommended) |
Disk space |
25 GB or more |
to 60 GB |
15-20 GB |
to 25 GB |
9-16 GB |
7.5 GB or more |
4.6 GB or more |
Updated for 18.04 LTS versions! Note the change in minimum required CPU: no longer will a Pentium II (Lubuntu) or PIII or AMD K7 (Xubuntu) do, it seems...
These minimum requirement figures given take into account the install of a 32-bit version, the support for which will be dropped soon in most distro's (with the 18.10 release actually). 64-bit versions may have higher requirements. When you do have such a 64-bit system, you have the advantage of a better CPU than these minimum requirements and almost no limitation in the amount of RAM -the more the better- you can place, other than the limits of your mobo -which may be different from those advertised. I have 16 GB running in a J5005 system that officially supports only 8 GB and know of people who have 32 GB in the same motherboard.
Most x86 systems (read x86-64 systems) nowadays can take at least 8 GB of RAM and a speed of 1.5 GHz for a CPU, APU or SOC seems the bare minimum now.
As an example: My 'budget' Socket AM1 2050 MHz Athlon 5350 Ubuntu and Xubuntu systems are loaded with 16 GB of DDR3 RAM.
You may have some older hardware lying around though....but will it run BOINC?
ARM boards as the Raspberry Pi2, 3 and 3+ are very limited in the expandability of system RAM (as in: "you just can't do it"): when you find out that the 1 GB of the Pi2 or 3 will not be enough, you should consider e.g. the 2 GB ARM Cortex-A53 equipped Odroid C2 or the 2 GB ARM Cortex-A17 equipped Asus Tinker Board. Both have the exact same dimensions as the Pi.
I had no trouble running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on my 2nd Raspi 2 though, and I had an even more pleasant experience running it on the (faster) Raspberry Pi 3 -as I did with the Lubuntu for Arm on my 2nd Pi 3.
#4 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:33 am
by davidbam
Very useful thankyou
I take it that disk space is a recommendation rather than an amount actually used? I use Ubuntu 18.10 extensively so, next time I install it, I'll check the actual space used by a clean installation
#5 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:42 pm
by Dirk Broer
davidBAM wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:33 amI take it that disk space is a recommendation rather than an amount actually used?
It is the value the distro gives at the hardware requirements as needing free disk space. Budgie had me speachless...
#6 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:04 am
by Dirk Broer
The Arch Family
Flavor |
archlinux |
archbang |
archlabs |
endeavour |
manjaro |
parabola |
Architecture | x86_64, i386, AArch64, armhf | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64, i686, Armhf |
Desktop | Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Mate, Xfce | i3, Openbox (Default) | bspwm, Cinnamon, i3-gaps, dwm, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Openbox (Default), Xfce | Cinnamon, GNOME3 (Default), KDE, MATE, Openbox, Xfce | Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, GNOME, i3, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, Openbox, Xfce (Default) | Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, MATE (Default), Openbox, WMaker, Xfce |
CPU Req | x86_64 CPU, i386, ARMv7, ARMv8 | x86_64 CPU (1 GHz or better recommended) | x86_64 CPU (1.4 GHz or better recommended) | x86_64 CPU (1 GHz or better recommended) | x86_64 CPU (1 GHz or better recommended) | i686 CPU (better recommended), ARMv7 |
RAM Req | 512 MB (2 GB or more recommended) | 512 MB (1 GB or more recommended) | 512 MB (1 GB or more recommended) | 512 MB (2 GB or more recommended) | 1 GB (more recommended) | 256 MB (more recommended) |
Disk Space | 10-20 GB | 5-15 GB | 10-15 GB | 6-15 GB | 30 GB | 800 MB (more recommended) |
#7 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:24 pm
by Dirk Broer
The Fedora family
Flavor |
fedora |
redhat |
centos |
clearos |
oracle linux |
scientific linux |
Architecture | AArch64, armhf, i686, x86_64 | AArch64, i386, ia64, IBM Z, ppc, ppc64el, s390, s390x, x86_64 | AArch64, armhf, i386, x86_64 | i686, x86_64 | AArch64, i686, sparc64, x86_64 | i386, x86_64 |
Desktop | Awesome, Cinnamon, Deepin, Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, Openbox, Pantheon, Ratpoison, Xfce | GNOME, KDE | GNOME, KDE | GNOME | GNOME, KDE | GNOME, IceWM, KDE |
CPU Req | 1 GHz CPU or better | 32-bit or 64-bit | 32-bit or 64-bit | 32-bit or 64-bit | 32-bit or 64-bit | i386 with PAE support (till version 6, x86_64 only from version 7) |
RAM Req | 1 GB (more recommended) | 2 GB (more recommended) | 1 GB (more recommended) | 1 GB (more recommended) | 1 GB (more recommended) | 512 MB (more recommended) |
Disk Space | 10 GB or more | 6 GB or more | 10-20 GB | 10 GB or more | 1 GB or more | 1-6 GB |
#8 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:25 am
by Alez
Has anyone tried running scientific Linux ? I've heard docker etc runs better, but I'm guessing that GPU support would be pretty sketchy.
#9 Re: Linux family comparision
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:07 pm
by Dirk Broer
Alez wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:25 am
Has anyone tried running scientific Linux ? I've heard docker etc runs better, but I'm guessing that GPU support would be pretty sketchy.
End of the line for Scientific Linux: "In April 2019, it was announced that Scientific Linux would be discontinued, but that maintenance will continue to be provided for the 6.x and 7.x releases through the end of their lifecycles. Fermilab will utilize CentOS for its deployment of 8.0 instead." source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux
Security updates are provided for as long as Red Hat continues to release updates and patches for their versions, 2024-06-30