🆚 CentOS vs. Scientific Linux
- 📈 CentOS is much more popular than Scientific Linux.
- 🌍 CentOS is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Scientific Linux is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Operating system
Operating system
About
CentOS is a discontinued open-source 
Linux distribution compatible with RHEL.
Scientific Linux is a discontinued Linux distribution based on RHEL.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 873 times more popular than Scientific Linux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular than Scientific Linux in all countries.
Japan
United States
Germany
Korea
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular than Scientific Linux in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
General News
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Debian
TurboLinux
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ClearOS🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.