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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.
3 of the 60 sites closest to Ubuntu match.
- 01
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Very close - 02
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Very close - 03
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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
Sitemaps
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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