🆚 Linux vs. Oracle Linux

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Linux is much more popular than Oracle Linux.
🌍 Linux is more popular in all countries.

Type

Operating system

Operating system

About

Linux is a family of open-source, Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, originally created by Linus Torvalds and now maintained by a global community of contributors.

It is widely used as a server operating system for web and application hosting, supporting web servers such as Apache and Nginx, databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, container runtimes such as Docker and LXC, and virtualization with KVM.

Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution based on RHEL source code, freely distributed by Oracle.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

kernel.org #6,431

oracle.com/linux/ #396

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Operating Systems › Rank #1

Operating Systems › Rank #14

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Linux operating system is 787 times more popular than Oracle Linux.

Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Linux is more popular than Oracle Linux in all countries.

United States

Germany

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

United Kingdom

France

Japan

Russia

Canada

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Operating Systems category.

⭐ 9th most popular in Brazil in the Operating Systems category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Canada in the Operating Systems category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Linux is more popular than Oracle Linux in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

General News

Software/Hardware

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#141

#199

giallozafferano.it

#385

#586

#623

Name

Rank

rockstargames.com

#1,863

#6,487

nan-net.jp

#7,161

#11,967

#12,047

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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