🆚 CentOS vs. Unix
- 📈 CentOS is noticeably more popular than Unix.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 Unix is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Denmark.
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.
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 1.3 times more popular than Unix.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea, while Unix is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Denmark.
Germany
Japan
United States
Korea
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
United Kingdom
Russia
Taiwan
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Unix is more commonly used on art, culture and heritage, real estate, and recreation and hobbies sites.
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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Ubuntu
Debian
TurboLinux
WindowsSee also
🗃️ 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.