Linux Kernel Organization

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Linux Kernel Organization is a California Public Benefit Corporation established in 2002 to distribute the Linux kernel and other Open Source software to the public without charge.

Linux Kernel Organization ranks #26 among the web technology companies we track.
The company's technologies are present on 8.6% of websites.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

🔍 Overview

🏠 Website
- kernel.org #6,431
💼 Legal name
- Linux Kernel Organization, Inc.
🏤 Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
🗓️ Founded
- 2002 (24 years ago)
💼 Parent company
- Linux Foundation

📁 Technology Categories

Operating systems

⚡ Technologies

#	Technology	Reach
1	Linux A family of open-source, Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, originally created by Linus Torvalds and now maintained by a global community of contributors. FreeOpen source	8.6%

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,634,181 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on August 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.