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How many Linux users worldwide?

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11y ago

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At 13/07/2012 09:50am, there are 132,975 users and 93,716 machines registered.

linuxcounter guess at the number of

Linux users:61,127,934

World population: 7,065,924,037

internet users: 2,397,173,905

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This isn't possible to answer with any certainty. Many companies contribute to the Linux kernel and may pay developers internally, but have only one person upload to the mainline tree. Some Linux developers may also receive patches from contributors who do not have git access.

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Approximately 10,000 developers throughout the world have worked on Linux. Linux was originally released in 1991. Its mascot is a penguin named Tux.

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