Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel powers 96.4% of the world's top 1 million web servers, all 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers, Android's 3.3 billion devices, and the majority of cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure. The kernel's 6.8 release in 2024 added Rust as a second supported language alongside C, a historic milestone that began a decade-long safety improvement program.