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CentOS

99,762

companies run it, 0.18% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 496,544 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.26%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

99,762 at Sept 26; 107,877 twelve months earlier, -8,115, -7.5% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
2021-01100,46923,659
2021-02100,47223,659
2021-03100,47523,660
2021-04100,47723,661
2021-05100,47923,661
2021-06100,48023,661
2021-07100,48223,662
2021-08100,54123,676
2021-09100,57123,683
2021-10100,59723,689
2021-11100,62423,695
2021-12100,65123,702
2022-01100,67523,707
2022-02100,69923,713
2022-03100,74323,723
2022-04100,77423,731
2022-05100,80623,738
2022-06100,84223,747
2022-07100,87723,755
2022-08100,91123,763
2022-09100,89923,760
2022-10100,91123,763
2022-11100,92623,766
2022-12100,94723,771
2023-01100,96223,775
2023-02100,98123,779
2023-03101,00123,784
2023-04102,81524,211
2023-05102,05324,032
2023-06101,29123,852
2023-07100,52423,672
2023-0899,75923,492
2023-0998,99423,311
2023-1098,22223,130
2023-1197,45422,949
2023-1296,68622,768
2024-0195,90922,585
2024-0295,13622,403
2024-0394,83722,333
2024-0494,13522,167
2024-0591,61921,575
2024-0691,70221,594
2024-0791,77821,612
2024-0891,87421,635
2024-0992,57621,800
2024-1094,20122,183
2024-1195,80422,560
2024-1297,27722,907
2025-0198,94823,301
2025-02100,35223,631
2025-03101,75623,962
2025-04102,72124,189
2025-05103,89524,466
2025-06105,13324,757
2025-07106,27625,026
2025-08107,37125,284
2025-09107,87725,403
2025-10107,77425,379
2025-11106,74625,137
2025-12105,74324,901
2026-01104,87624,697
2026-02104,02924,497
2026-03103,51424,376
2026-04103,03624,263
2026-05102,43124,121
2026-06101,95324,008
2026-07101,27823,849
2026-08100,56923,682
2026-0999,76223,492

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 99,762each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.18%
companies running anything in Programming Languages and Runtimes
36,337,962
0.27%
companies running anything in Server operating systems
2,736,129
3.6%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, CentOS is rank 5 of 19 technologies in Server operating systems.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

A Linux distribution used as a server operating system.

CentOS is a community-maintained Linux distribution commonly used as a server operating system in web hosting and application environments. It is open-source and self-hosted by organizations that manage their own infrastructure.

Kindproduct
VendorCentOS Project, centos.org
Slugcentos
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2019-10-04
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10