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You use Linux everyday whether you know it or not.

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Over eight hundred fifty thousand Android phones running Linux are activated

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every single day. Compare that to just thirty thousand Windows phones,

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according to the latest reports.

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That means one hundred Android devices have come online

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just since you started watching this video.

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Nearly seven hundred thousand televisions are sold in every day,

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most of which are running Linux.

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Eight out of ten financial trades are powered by Linux.

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Nine out of ten of the world super computers run Linux.

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Google, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon are all powered by Linux.

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So, how is Linux developed to achieve all of this? Unlike other operating systems,

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like Windows or iOS, Linux

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is built collaboratively, across companies, geographies, and markets,

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resulting in the largest collaborative development project in the history of

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computing. Just since two thousand five about eight thousand developers

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from almost eight hundred companies have contributed to the Linux kernel.

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These contributions have resulted in fifteen million lines of code. One point five

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million lines written in just the last couple of years.

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Consider that Homer's epic "Ilead" is a mere fifteen thousand lines of text.

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The novel "War and Peace" just five hundred sixty thousand words.

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But it's not just about the sheer number of lines code,

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it's also about how quickly Linux is developed and released.

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For example, a major new kernel comes out every two to three months.

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Compare this to years for competing operating systems.

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This is made possible by a unique collaborative development process.

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When submitting code to the Linux kernel, developers break changes into individual

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units called patches.

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The patch describes the lines that need to be changed, added, or removed from the

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source code.

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Each patch can add a new feature, new support for a device, fix a problem, improve

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performance, or rework things to be more easily understood.

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Developers post their patches to the relevant mailing lists where other developers can

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reply with feedback.

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When the patch is close to being release ready,

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it is accepted by a senior Linux kernel developer, or maintainer, who manages

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one or more of a one hundred different sections of the kernel.

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While this is not a guarantee that it will go to the main line,

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it is certainly a good sign.

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Here it gets an even more extensive evaluation.

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When the maintainer finishes their review, he or she will sign off on the

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patch and send it on to Linux creator, and Linux Foundation Fellow, Linus Torvalds,

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who has the ultimate authority on what is accepted into the next

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release and what is not. Nearly ten thousand patches go into almost

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every new release.

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About six patches are applied to the kernel each hour.

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Linux's rate of development is simply unmatched.

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Today, Linux is dominating on mobile device, in the enterprise and web infrastructure,

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data centers, supercomputing, and more.

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What's next? Because together, we are ready.