In Memoriam: Dan Kohn (November 20, 1972 – November 1, 2020)

Download the 2020 Linux Kernel History Report

This report looks back through the history of the Linux kernel and the impact of some of the best practices and tooling infrastructure that has emerged to enable one of the most significant software collaborations known.

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Largest Shared Technology Investment

The Linux Foundation supports the creation of sustainable open source ecosystems by providing financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, events, and training.

16B USD

Estimated development cost of the 100+ world’s leading projects hosted at The Linux Foundation

35,000

Technologists attend our events annually, from more than 11,000 companies and 113 countries

1.7 Million

Open source professionals have enrolled in our free open source training courses

10 / 10

Largest cloud service providers are Linux Foundation project contributors and members

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The Organization of Choice for Building Sustainable Open Source Ecosystems

Helping the Automotive
Industry Innovate
AGL lets automakers and suppliers speed innovation and bring new features to market faster. Toyota adopted the AGL platform starting with the best selling car in the world, the 2018 Toyota Camry.

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Revolutionizing Networks for 2.5B Mobile Subscribers
Mobile service operators representing 70% of the global market plan to use  projects like ONAP to automate their networks and build innovative next-generation services.

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Redefining the nature of trust on the Internet
Hyperledger is a global collaboration driven by more than 250 members from the finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chain, manufacturing, and technology industries.

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Home to the World’s Most Important Open Source Project
The Linux Foundation provides Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated.

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eBook:
Enterprise Open Source: A Practical Introduction

45 page book is based on the experience of hundreds of companies spanning more than two decades of professional, enterprise open source

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It's one thing to create a great piece of software. It’s quite another to have it make a mark on the entire industry. These are the companies and organizations whose work has had a significant impact on what others build, how they build it, and ultimately, who uses it: Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, GitHub, Netflix, Red Hat, Slack, and The Linux Foundation.

SD Times2017 100 Influencers
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We’ve been one of the bedrock members of The Linux Foundation since its inception. We have a long history of doing open source projects throughout many communities. (But) there are things we couldn’t do before that we can now do, working in partnership with The Linux Foundation. If we were to take a project, open source it ourselves, and expect people to come to that project, that’s a very difficult path. But when you do it in partnership with The Linux Foundation, that path gets smoothed.

Todd MooreVP of Open Technology at IBM
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The Linux Foundation is home to Linux, Node.js and other mission critical projects that form the backbone of modern internet services, including Pinterest. Joining The Linux Foundation is a great way for established companies like ours to support those communities.

Jon PariseTechnical Architecture Lead and Open Source Program Lead at Pinterest