🆚 Debian vs. Gentoo
- 📈 Debian is much more popular than Gentoo.
- 🌍 Debian is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Gentoo is particularly popular in Russia.
DebianType
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.
Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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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 Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Switzerland in the Operating Systems category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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.