🆚 FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu
- 📈 Ubuntu is much more popular than FreeBSD.
- 🌍 Ubuntu is more popular in all countries.
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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 desktops, servers, cloud, and IoT environments.
It includes the GNOME desktop environment, uses APT and 
Snap for software distribution, provides built-in security with AppArmor and unattended updates, offers official cloud images and container support with tools like 
Docker and 
Kubernetes, and is available on major cloud platforms such as 
AWS, 
Microsoft Azure, and 
Google Cloud.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Finland 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.