🆚 Linux vs. Scientific Linux
- 📈 Linux is much more popular than Scientific Linux.
- 🌍 Linux is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Scientific Linux is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LinuxType
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.
Scientific 
Linux is a discontinued Linux distribution based on RHEL.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Linux operating system is 13,471 times more popular than Scientific 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 Scientific 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Linux is more popular than Scientific 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Windows
Ubuntu
Debian
FreeBSD
Oracle Linux
TurboLinux
ClearOS🗃️ 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.