🆚 Gentoo vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 📈 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is five times more popular than Gentoo.
- 🌎 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain.
- 🌍 Gentoo is more popular in Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxType
Operating system
Operating system
About
Gentoo Linux is a 
Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.
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.
Headquarters
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌Free 60-day trial
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server $383.90
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters $2,748.90
Categories
Operating Systems › Rank #14
Operating Systems › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system is 5 times more popular than Gentoo.
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 Spain, while Gentoo is more popular in Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
United States
Russia
Japan
Spain
Germany
Czech Republic
Italy
Canada
Austria
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Canada 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 Gentoo is more commonly used on games and forum, bulletin boards sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Government/Military
Public Information
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.