🆚 CentOS vs. Debian
- 📈 Debian is noticeably more popular than CentOS.
- 🌍 Debian is more popular in Germany, France, and the Czech Republic.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Korea.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CentOS
DebianType
Operating system
Operating system
About
RHELDebian is a free and open-source 
Linux distribution that provides a stable operating system with a strong focus on reliability, security, and universal compatibility across multiple hardware architectures.
It includes a package-based system managed with APT, offers more than 70,000 tested software packages in its repositories, and serves as the foundation for over 120 derivative distributions including 
Ubuntu and Kali Linux.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Debian operating system is 1.6 times more popular than CentOS.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Debian is more popular in Germany, France, and the Czech Republic, while CentOS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Korea.
Germany
United States
Japan
France
Czech Republic
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Spain
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Debian is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while CentOS is more commonly used on health sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Travel
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.