🆚 AlmaLinux vs. Scientific Linux
- 📈 AlmaLinux is much more popular than Scientific Linux.
- 🌍 AlmaLinux is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Scientific Linux is particularly popular in Japan.
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
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The AlmaLinux operating system is 108 times more popular than Scientific Linux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
AlmaLinux is more popular than Scientific Linux in all countries.
United States
Japan
Netherlands
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Australia
Russia
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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
AlmaLinux is more popular than Scientific Linux in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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.