⚡ Operating Systems in Panama

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

Panama is a Central American country with a population of over 4.5 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 18.4% of websites from Panama.

Statistics based on 1K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Linux, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.4% share.
It is followed by CentOS with 23.4% and Ubuntu with 17.7%.

Linux 85.4%
CentOS 23.4%
Ubuntu 17.7%
Windows 11.5%
Debian 9.9%
Rocky Linux 7.3%
Unix 3.1%
Amazon Linux 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. CentOS ^(-3)
6. Rocky Linux ^(-3)
8. Amazon Linux ^(-3)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 8 operating systems used on sites from Panama, 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	85.4%
2	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	23.4%
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	17.7%
4	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	11.5%
5	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	9.9%
6	Rocky Linux Albany, California, United States An open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreeOpen source	7.3%
7	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.	3.1%
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	0.5%

👉 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 1,042 websites from Panama.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Panama.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.