🆚 CentOS vs. FreeBSD
- 📈 CentOS is much more popular than FreeBSD.
- 🌍 CentOS is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CentOSType
Operating system
Operating system
About
Linux
RHELFreeBSD 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.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 11 times more popular than FreeBSD.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular than FreeBSD in all countries.
Japan
United States
Germany
Korea
Russia
Italy
Netherlands
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea 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 Slovakia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Bulgaria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular than FreeBSD in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Travel
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,533,726 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.