🆚 AlmaLinux vs. FreeBSD
- 📈 AlmaLinux is noticeably more popular than FreeBSD.
- 🌎 AlmaLinux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 FreeBSD is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Ukraine.
AlmaLinuxType
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.
FreeBSD is an open-source 
Unix-like operating system designed for reliability, performance, and advanced networking across servers, desktops, and embedded systems.
It features a permissive 
BSD license, strong TCP/IP networking, a unified base system with an integrated package system offering over 30,000 third-party packages, the ZFS file system with snapshots and replication, the bhyve hypervisor, and jails for lightweight OS-level virtualization.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Czech Republic 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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Canada in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
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FreeBSD Foundation company profile🗃️ 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 3,711,310 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.