🆚 CentOS vs. Unix
- 📈 Unix is slightly more popular than CentOS.
- 🌍 Unix is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CentOS
UnixType
Operating system
Operating system
About
Linux
RHELUnix is a family of multitasking, multi-user operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs that became one of the foundations of modern server, networking, and enterprise computing.
It introduced portable 
C-based system architecture, hierarchical file systems, command-line shells, pipelines, user permissions, background processes, and a modular design philosophy built around combining small utilities through standard text-based interfaces.
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 Unix operating system is 1.1 times more popular than CentOS.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Unix is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, while CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea.
Germany
Japan
United States
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Spain
Italy
United Kingdom
Taiwan
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Unix is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, blogs and wiki, and art, culture and heritage, while CentOS is more commonly used on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
General News
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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.