

X Window System, or, more recently, Wayland), a window manager, and a OpenWrt) and personal computers (for example, Linux Mint) to powerful supercomputers (for example,Ī typical Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system (the most common being the

Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one of the Linux distributions, which are available for a wide variety of systems ranging from embedded devices (for example, Ubuntu, one of the most popular desktop Linux distributionsĭistribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a

