⚡ Operating Systems in Australia

Server operating systems are designed for computers that provide network services, such as hosting websites or storing data.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 10.3% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 74K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top operating systems on websites in Australia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Linux with a substantial share of 62.8%, followed by Windows with 36% and Ubuntu with 13.7%.

Linux 62.8%
Windows 36%
Ubuntu 13.7%
Debian 3.4%
CentOS 1.7%
Unix 1.2%
AlmaLinux 1%
Amazon Linux 0.4%
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0.2%
FreeBSD 0.2%
Fedora 0.09%
OpenBSD 0.06%
Oracle Linux 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top systems that are more popular in Australia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

7. AlmaLinux ^(-1)
8. Amazon Linux ^(-3)
11. Fedora ^(-1)
12. OpenBSD ^(-5)
13. Oracle Linux ^(-1)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 13 operating systems used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Linux San Francisco, California, United States 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. FreeOpen source	62.8%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	36%
3	Ubuntu London, United Kingdom A free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, designed for desktops, servers, cloud, and IoT environments. FreeOpen source$500+/year	13.7%
4	Debian New York, United States A free and open-source Linux distribution that provides a stable operating system with a strong focus on reliability, security, and universal compatibility across multiple hardware architectures. FreeOpen source	3.4%
5	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.7%
6	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	1.2%
7	AlmaLinux Estero, Florida, United States An open-source, community owned and governed, free enterprise Linux distribution focused on long-term stability. FreeOpen source	1%
8	Amazon Linux Seattle, Washington, United States A supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Free	0.4%
9	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the enterprise market. $383.90+	0.2%
10	FreeBSD Boulder, Colorado, United States An open source Unix-like operating system designed for reliability, performance, and advanced networking across servers, desktops, and embedded systems. FreeOpen source	0.2%
11	Fedora A Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. FreeOpen source	0.09%
12	OpenBSD Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A security-focused open-source operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution.	0.06%
13	Oracle Linux Austin, Texas, United States A Linux distribution based on RHEL source code, freely distributed by Oracle.	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Operating Systems in other countries

🗃️ 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 74,964 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.