CentOS is a free downstream rebuild of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution where, in contrast, Debian is the free upstream distribution that is the base for other distributions, including the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Is Debian Ubuntu or CentOS?

The biggest difference between the two Linux distributions is that Ubuntu is based on the Debian architecture while CentOS is forked from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. … CentOS is considered to be a more stable distribution compared to Ubuntu. Mainly because package updates are less frequent.

Is Linux the same as Debian?

Debian is a general distribution of Linux. Every distribution has its own package management tools, set of default packages that are pre-installed, and may differ in what services are pre-installed and even what configuration files and such are used.