🆚 AlmaLinux vs. Rocky Linux
- 📈 AlmaLinux is noticeably more popular than Rocky Linux.
- 🌎 AlmaLinux is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
- 🌍 Rocky Linux is more popular in France, Italy, and Korea.
Rocky LinuxType
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.
Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It supports five processor architectures including x86_64 and ARM, offers an opt-in security repository for delivering urgent fixes ahead of upstream releases, and provides a migrate2rocky script for in-place conversions from CentOS, 
AlmaLinux, or 
Oracle Linux.
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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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
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- 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.
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