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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.

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01 · 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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ubuntu

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ubuntu, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than UbuntuNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

3 of the 60 sites closest to Ubuntu match.

  1. 01
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

    Compare GitLab with Ubuntu →
  2. 02
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub with Ubuntu →
  3. 03
    Trello trello.com Top 10K English Free plan No trackers

    Capture, organize, and tackle your to-dos from anywhere

    Make the impossible, possible with Trello. The ultimate tool to boost your productivity. Escape the clutter and chaos—stay efficient with Inbox, Boards, and Planner from anywhere, even on mobile.

    Compare Trello with Ubuntu →

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

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
9,209
Vector
384-d
Query
53 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

TrelloGitHubGitLab