🆚 FreeBSD vs. Unix

📈 Unix is much more popular than FreeBSD.
🌎 Unix is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States.
🌍 FreeBSD is more popular in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Belarus.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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.

Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

freebsd.org #22,440

unix.org #4,100,896

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Unix operating system is 9 times more popular than FreeBSD.

Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Unix is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States, while FreeBSD is more popular in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Belarus.

Germany

Japan

United States

Korea

Netherlands

Spain

France

United Kingdom

Russia

Ukraine

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.

🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Unix is more popular than FreeBSD in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#8,668

#10,255

#17,667

#23,639

#24,315

Name

Rank

#221

#1,075

#1,870

#1,945

#2,014