Slackware (1993) ──→ SUSE (1994) ──→ openSUSE / SLES
└──→ (影响) Alpine (独立发展)
Debian (1993) ──→ Ubuntu (2004) ──→ Mint / Pop!_OS / Kali / Raspberry Pi OS
Red Hat (1994) ──→ RHEL ──→ CentOS / Rocky / Alma / Oracle Linux
└──→ Fedora (上游社区版)
Arch (2002) ──→ Manjaro / EndeavourOS / SteamOS
独立:NixOS、Gentoo、Void、Clear Linux