🆚 AlmaLinux vs. CentOS
- 📈 CentOS is much more popular than AlmaLinux.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
- 🌍 AlmaLinux is more popular in Algeria.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
AlmaLinuxType
Operating system
Operating system
About
AlmaLinux is an open-source enterprise 
Linux distribution focused on long-term stability and binary compatibility with 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Created as a successor to 
CentOS, it provides free community-maintained enterprise releases with predictable long-term support cycles and regular security updates, supports major server architectures such as x86-64 and ARM64, and is broadly used in hosting and cloud infrastructure.
Headquarters
Estero, Florida, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 8 times more popular than AlmaLinux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany, while AlmaLinux is more popular in Algeria.
Japan
United States
Germany
Korea
Netherlands
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
Taiwan
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Slovakia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular than AlmaLinux in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
General News
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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TurboLinux🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.