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How many people wrote Linux?

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Millions of people use it.

It's hard to tell exactly how many people use it as their desktop OS, as it's free for download and you can use it on as many computers as you want. Still, recent estimates put the number at around 65 million (that's more than the population of the UK!).

Also, we shouldn't forget that most servers use Linux. So Facebook runs on Linux servers. As does YouTube. And Google. The list goes on.

Considering this, we can update our statistic to 1,802 million (see http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm).

So really, even if we have Windows installed at home, we are all using Linux everyday. A better question would be: who isn't using Linux?

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Linux is really just a kernel maintained by a core of developers, but accepting contributions from many. Linux distributions, which is probably what you are thinking of, exist by the hundreds and are worked on by thousands of people to greater or lesser degrees. It's entirely possible for one person to release a distribution.

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one, Linus torualds.

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