Linux Counter

Linux Counter
Type of businessNon-profit
DissolvedDecember 10, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-12-10)
OwnerLinux Counter Project
Founder(s)Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Commercialno
Launched1993; 31 years ago (1993)

The Linux Counter was a website that attempted to estimate the number of people and machines using the Linux operating system. It ran from 1993[1] until December 2018. The last available estimate of Linux users was 91.9 million, as of August 2017.[2]

  1. ^ "The Linux Counter Relaunches - Slashdot". Slashdot. 10 September 2011.
  2. ^ "The estimation of linux users". Archived from the original on 3 August 2017.