🆚 Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs. Rocky Linux
- 📈 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is noticeably more popular than Rocky Linux.
- 🌎 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the United States, Spain, and Russia.
- 🌍 Rocky Linux is more popular in Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Rocky LinuxType
About
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.
Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It supports five processor architectures including x86_64 and ARM, offers an opt-in security repository for delivering urgent fixes ahead of upstream releases, and provides a migrate2rocky script for in-place conversions from 
CentOS, 
AlmaLinux, or 
Oracle Linux.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Hong Kong in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Italy in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
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- 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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