The Solus team consists of team members from around the world such as software developers and maintainers who currently develop and maintain the Solus operating system. Bryan Meyers and Joshua Strobl are the main members of the team, while more members can be seen on the team page.

The team purposefully built Solus with a shared vision and common goals in mind, volunteering their time to create an open system and software that you would be proud to use.

Zorin Group is the technology company behind the development of Zoris OS, a Linux operating system used by millions of users worldwide. The Zorin Group creates new technologies for people around the world, and the company's main product is the popular Zorin OS operating system. The Zorin Group develops Linux-based products, and by and large is a specialist in operating systems, Linux, software development, and design.

The Ubuntu MATE Team consists of team members such as software developers, maintainers, designers, contributors and community that currently develop and maintain the Ubuntu MATE operating system. Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope are the founders of the project, and others working on the project can be seen on the team page.

If you want to join the team, click here to learn how to connect the Ubuntu MATE community.

Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. (or Deepin Technology) is a Chinse company focused on research and development of operating systems. The company was founded in 2011, and aims to provide safe, reliable, beautiful and easy to use operating systems and open source solutions. Its operating system product has been widely used in government, finance, communications, education and other fields.

Deepin is a Linux operating system developed by Deepin Technology, committed to providing a beautiful, user-friendly, secure and stable experience for users worldwide.

The MX Dev team consists of team members who develop and maintain the MX Linux operating system. The team is made up of a group of volunteers of different backgrounds, talents and interests. The antiX Community, MX & former MEPIS Communities are supportive communities.

Android-x86 project developers include team members who develop and maintain Android-x86 operating system. Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun are the founders of Android-X86 project, and other developer names managing the project are Mauro Rossi, Michael Goffioul, Paulo Sergio, Jaap Jan Meijer, Michael Chen, Dima Zavin, and more.

The elementary LLC is the company behind the development and support of the elementary OS, an open source Linux operating system designed for desktop and laptop computers. The company was founded in 2007 with a small group of designers and developers, now they have more passionate people working together. The company is focused on open source software, and currently its main product is the elementary OS.

Google is a global technology company focused on providing Internet based products and services. Android and Chrome OS are two major operating systems created by Google, both of which are open source, and are based on the Linux kernel. Android is designed for mobile devices, while Chrome OS is designed for personal computers. In the case of popularity, Android is used by billions of people around the world, while Chrome OS is preinstalled with the Chromebook, so it is not so popular as Android. There are some other Google developed operating systems, but Android is the only one that is widely installed on a large number of computing devices.

Neverware is a tech company (supported by Google) which provides an operating system called 'CloudReady' as a service to consumers, academic institutions and enterprises. CloudReady is based on Google's open source Chromium project, which can be installed on PC and Mac with the support of older hardware. People who like Chrome OS, but they do not have any Chromebook devices, they can install the CloudReady Home version on your PC for free and use Chrome OS. The company was founded by Jonathan Hefter in 2011, and was financed by several venture capital, including Google. Currently, the company is located in New York, United States.

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company specialized in developing and selling computer software. Windows, the world's most popular operating system for personal computers, has been created by Microsoft. The company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and the company came to operating system bussiness in 1980 with the relaease of MS-DOS. MS-DOS (Micrososft disk operating system) was the company's first operating system developed for IBM-compatible PCs. Later in the year 1985, the company released Windows, the first version called Windows 1.0, which included graphical user-interface and many software utilities for personal computing.

There are some other operating systems developed by Microsoft, but the most known is Windows.

The Debian Project is an organization of individuals and leaders behind the development and support of Debian, an open source operating system based on the Linux kernel. The project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock, and over time, the project was handed over to several different leaders. The time the project started, it was the only Linux distribution that was open to contribution for everyone, now there are hundreds of developers around the world are actively collaborating in this project.

At present the Debian Project Association is supported by the non-profit organization, which is called Software in the Public Interest (SPI), while the time of intial release it was sponsored by the Free Software Foundation.

The openSUSE project develops and maintains openSUSE Linux distribution, it is one of the best Linux operating systems designed for desktop / laptop computers and servers. The openSUSE project is controlled by its community members and contributors. The purpose of the project is to create free and open source software and to promote the use of Linux everywhere. The openSUSE project has been set up by Novell, and it is supported by many technology and IT companies like AMD and SUSE. You can visit this link to know more about project sponsors.

Members of the openSUSE community are organized in various teams according to the area of ​​interest of members like Art, Forums, Documentation, Marketing etc.

The Manjaro Linux Team includes core team members, software developers and community who develop and maintain the Manjaro Linux operating system. Guillaume Benoit and Philip Müller are the two main developers of the team, while more developers can be seen on the team members page. Manjaro Linux project has been sponsored by several companies, and to learn more about sponsors click here. As an individual or a company, you can donate to the project so that they can help to maintain the software, services etc.

Manjaro Linux is one of the best Linux distributions for desktop computers, it comes with a variety of pre-installed desktop environments and software applications.

Offensive Security (or Offsec Services Ltd.) is an IT security company that specilize in providing penetration test services such as testing software, training, certification etc. Currently the company offers several professional information security courses, one which is very popular called 'OSCP' stands for Offensive Security Certified Professional is a certification programme that teaches penetration testing methods on the Kali Linux operating system and other software. Kali Linux is an operating system that is most widely used for testing computer security, and ethical hacking, it is currently maintained and developed by Offensive Security.

You can go to the about page to know more about team members.

Community software is created with the help of open community members, and such software commonly known as 'open-source'. Open-source software released under the free license, and all users are allowed to redistribute such software, change its source code and use it for commercial purpose. Thousands of open-source software is available online today, and millions of projects have been deposited in GitHub.com.

In the case of operating systems, almost all Linux operating systems are released under open-source licenses, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Debian and CentOS are based on open source software models.

Linus Torvalds is the Linux kernel's creator, the kernel which is used in Android, and thousands of Linux based operating systems. Thousands of software developers around the world have contributed to the Linux kernel, so the credit goes to the community too. Torvalds is also known for making distributed version control software called 'Git', and like their kernel, many developers have contributed to the development of the Git. GitHub.com, the most popular open-source platform, is based on Git.

Linus Torvalds has received many awards for his work almost every year after making Kernel. Currently, he is a member of the Linux Foundation.

Canonical Ltd. is a computer software company based in London, United Kingdom. The company is behind the development and marketing of open-source Ubuntu operating systems. Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux operating system, it is widely installed on more than 40 million personal desktop computers and a large number of web servers worldwide. The comapny Canonical specalize in open source software, and most of its products and services are based on the Ubuntu operating system. They work with hardware manufacturers so that Ubuntu can be available as a pre-installed OS with new computers. Company's mission to establish Ubuntu on each computing platform, such as Mobile, Server and Cloud.

The Linux Mint Team includes leading Linux Mint team members, and community which develops Linux Mint operating system. Leading Developers, who manage the overall Linux Mint project and team members, are Clement Lefebvre and Vincent Vermeulen, while Jamie Boo Birse and Kendall Weaver are also key contributors to the operating system.

Red Hat, Inc. (founded in 1993) is the world's largest open source software company, currently based in North Carolina, U.S. The company specilize in providing open source software (for example, operating system) to businesses and the public. The software products of the company are developed by community members and core employees. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora are the mainstream software products of the company, are open-source Linux operating system for servers and desktop computers, they are freely available for everyone while the company charges for those services which they provide with thier software, such as support, training, etc.

Red Hat, Inc. is one of the largest contributors of open-source software community, which has contributed immensely to many large open source software projects such as the Linux kernel, the GNOME Desktop Environment and LibreOffice.