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Fedora

Fedora Linux (formerly Fedora, formerly Fedora Core) is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora Linux contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies.

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Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

Technical Specs Comparison
FedoraSolus
IndependentBaseIndependent
dnf / flatpak, rpmPackage Managereopkg, flatpak
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelRolling Release
44Latest Version4.9
IntermediateDifficultyBeginner
April 28, 2026Release DateApril 18, 2026
ARM64armppc64els390xx86_64
Architecture
ARM64armppc64els390xx86_64
AwesomeBudgieCinnamonEnlightenmenti3GNOMEKDE PlasmalabwcLXDELXQtMATEOpenboxRatpoisonWayfireXfce
Desktops
AwesomeBudgieCinnamonEnlightenmenti3GNOMEKDE PlasmalabwcLXDELXQtMATEOpenboxRatpoisonWayfireXfce