Open Source Spotlight: Linux
By BIOS Founding Team
In 1991, a Finnish university student named Linus Torvalds released the first version of a free operating system kernel as a hobby project. Today, Linux powers the majority of public cloud infrastructure, virtually all of the world's top supercomputers, and the Android devices in most people's pockets.
Linux isn't one company's product, it's developed by thousands of contributors from companies like Red Hat, Google, IBM, and Intel, alongside independent developers, all collaborating in the open under the Linux Foundation.
For anyone in cloud or DevOps, Linux is foundational: every EC2 instance, Kubernetes node, and Docker container you've ever touched almost certainly runs on it.
Ways to get involved don't require kernel expertise: distro projects like Fedora and Debian, documentation efforts, and tooling built around Linux (systemd, package managers, shells) all welcome contributors at every level.
If you use Linux daily but have never thought of it as something you could contribute to, that's worth reconsidering.
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