Lisp installations on Linux

Some of the lisp installations are 1)sbcl -- very widely used and has a good support 2)cmucl -- an ancestor of sbcl with lesser active lisp developers than sbcl 3)dr scheme -- An implementation of scheme, another branch of lisp. 4)emacs lisp -- a derivative of lisp that was used to build emacs. Emacs is a very popular editor. If you have emacs you can invoke emacslisp by opening the emacs editor and typing in M+x ielm.