🆚 Debian vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 📈 Debian is much more popular than Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- 🌎 Debian is more popular in Germany, France, and the United States.
- 🌍 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in Iceland, Mauritius, and New Caledonia.
Debian
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxType
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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial enterprise Linux distribution designed for hybrid cloud deployments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
It includes Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a mandatory access control system built into the kernel, and supports kernel live patching which applies critical security updates without rebooting the system.
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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 Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Hong Kong in the Operating Systems category.
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- 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.