🆚 Debian vs. FreeBSD
- 📈 Debian is much more popular than FreeBSD.
- 🌍 Debian is more popular in all countries.
Debian
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About
Debian is a free and open-source 
Linux distribution that provides a stable operating system with a strong focus on reliability, security, and universal compatibility across multiple hardware architectures.
It includes a package-based system managed with APT, offers more than 70,000 tested software packages in its repositories, and serves as the foundation for over 120 derivative distributions including 
Ubuntu and Kali Linux.
FreeBSD 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.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Slovakia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany 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.
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.