🆚 FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Operating system
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.

Ubuntu is a free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, designed for use on desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Ubuntu Pro Server$500+/year

Categories

Operating Systems › Rank #9
Operating Systems › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ubuntu operating system is 45 times more popular than FreeBSD.
Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ubuntu is more popular than FreeBSD in all countries.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
India
Italy
France
Netherlands
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ubuntu is more popular than FreeBSD in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
General News
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,673
#10,255
#23,639
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Name
Rank
y2mate.nu
#826
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See also

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