🆚 FreeBSD vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is slightly more popular than FreeBSD.
🌎 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Russia.
🌍 FreeBSD is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.

Type

Operating system

About

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.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Website

freebsd.org #22,440

redhat.com #2,653

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌Free 60-day trial

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server$383.90

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters$2,748.90

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system is 1.4 times more popular than FreeBSD.

Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Russia, while FreeBSD is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.

United States

Japan

Germany

Russia

Spain

Ukraine

Austria

Canada

Italy

Czech Republic

Awards

⭐ 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.

⭐ 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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and marketing and merchandising, while FreeBSD is more commonly used on Internet services, personal pages, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Education/Reference

Business

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Software/Hardware

Public Information

Government/Military

Travel

Online Shopping