🆚 CentOS vs. Linux
- 📈 Linux is much more popular than CentOS.
- 🌍 Linux is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ CentOS is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CentOS
LinuxType
Operating system
Operating system
About
Linux
RHELLinux is a family of open-source, 
Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, originally created by Linus Torvalds and now maintained by a global community of contributors.
It is widely used as a server operating system for web and application hosting, supporting web servers such as Apache and 
Nginx, databases such as MySQL and 
PostgreSQL, container runtimes such as 
Docker and 
LXC, and virtualization with KVM.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Linux operating system is 19 times more popular than CentOS.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Linux is more popular than CentOS in all countries.
United States
Germany
Spain
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
United Kingdom
France
Russia
India
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Linux is more popular than CentOS in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
General News
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,711,310 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.