🆚 AlmaLinux vs. Unix
- 📈 Unix is much more popular than AlmaLinux.
- 🌎 Unix is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States.
- 🌍 AlmaLinux is more popular in Slovakia, South Africa, and Slovenia.
AlmaLinux
UnixType
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.
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs that became one of the foundations of modern server, networking, and enterprise computing.
It introduced portable 
C-based system architecture, hierarchical file systems, command-line shells, pipelines, user permissions, background processes, and a modular design philosophy built around combining small utilities through standard text-based interfaces.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan 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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Australia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.