Happy birthday to
More than 20 years ago, Linus Torvalds sparked an open source revolution with a short email declaring he was doing a new project “just for fun.” Today, Linux powers 98% of the world’s super computers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide and tens of millions of Android mobile phones and consumer devices. In short, Linux is everywhere.
Linux by the Numbers
In the 20+ years since Linux was started by Linux Torvalds, the project has racked up some serious numbers:
- 9 code changes per hour
- $10.8 billion shared R&D investment
- Millions of developers
- 65% of smart mobile devices
- 95% of high performance computing market
- 55% of embedded systems market
- 40% of enterprise server market
- 90% of world’s stock exchanges
