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Ubuntu
Who runs Ubuntu, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of canonical.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SUSE
Measured from Ubuntu’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ubuntu01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ubuntu
Ubuntu ubuntu.com
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Wikidata: Linux distribution developed by Canonical
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- canonical.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Ubuntu tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
12 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ubuntu
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ubuntu, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Open Source Software Solutions for Enterprise Servers & Cloud | SUSE
Modernize your infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, cloud technology for IaaS, and SUSE's software-defined storage.
Very close - 02
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 03
Home - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
Very close - 04
Manjaro – The Linux for People and Organizations
This page provides an overview of Manjaro Linux, an open source operating system designed for ease of use. Learn about its features, installation, and support options. Get the most out of Manjaro Linux with the latest news, downloads, and tips from our helpful community.
Very close - 05
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Very close - 06
Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
Close - 07
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing
Very close - 08
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 09
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Very close - 10
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 11
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Very close - 12
ChromeOS – das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem für Ihr Unternehmen
Kennen Sie schon ChromeOS, das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem, mit dem Sie Ihr Unternehmen voranbringen und die Erwartungen Ihrer Mitarbeitenden an moderne Arbeitsumgebungen erfüllen können?
Very close - 13
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Very close - 14
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close - 15
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
Very close - 16
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 17
HAProxy Technologies | Powering the World's Busiest Applications
Simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy.
Very close - 18
Flathub - Apps for Linux | Flathub
Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy Firefox, Telegram, RetroArch, GIMP and many more!
Very close - 19
Proxmox - Powerful open-source server solutions
Proxmox develops powerful and efficient open-source server solutions like the Proxmox VE platform, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.
Very close - 20
Remote Support & Access Solutions | ScreenConnect
Instantly access any device, fix IT issues faster and increase productivity with ScreenConnect's remote support solutions. Start a free trial today.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ubuntu’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ubuntu uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ubuntu adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ubuntu’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ddh2iq7ZuKf1LpkL_gtM_T7DkKDVD7ibq6Ceue4a_3M
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Font Awesome · not on ubuntu.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ubuntu.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on ubuntu.com 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on ubuntu.com 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on ubuntu.com 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on ubuntu.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on ubuntu.com 4/20
- Adobe · not on ubuntu.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on ubuntu.com 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on ubuntu.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on ubuntu.com 3/20
- nginx 3/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on ubuntu.com 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ubuntu.com 3/20