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Technologies > Operating Systems > Unix > Linux

Usage of Linux for websites

This report shows the usage statistics of Linux on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

The diagram shows the percentage of websites using Linux as operating system.

How to read the diagram:
Unix is used by 66.4% of all the websites whose operating system we know.

Unix
66.4%
Linux
63.7%
W3Techs.com, 3 September 2010
Percentage of websites using Linux

Subcategories of Linux

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various subcategories of Linux.

How to read the diagram:
CentOS is used by 33.4% of all the websites who use Linux.

CentOS
33.4%
Debian
26.0%
Red Hat
16.1%
Ubuntu
10.2%
Fedora
7.4%
SuSE
4.5%
Gentoo
2.1%
Mandriva
0.2%
Turbolinux
0.1%
Scientific Linux
less than 0.1%
PLD Linux
less than 0.1%
W3Techs.com, 3 September 2010
Percentages of websites using various subcategories of Linux

Popular sites using Linux

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Linux
Category: Operating Systems
Linux is a Unix-like open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.
Website: linux.org
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