Allen Houchins
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**Related issue:** NA New thought-leadership article pegged to Statcounter's July 2026 data showing Linux desktop share at 10.65% in North America. The angle is deliberately honest rather than triumphant: most of the month-over-month jump came from Statcounter reclassifying an "Unknown" traffic bucket, not from a mass migration. That measurement problem is the bridge into Fleet's argument, since the same blind spot that hid Linux from web analytics hides Linux hosts from asset inventories that discover devices through Apple and Windows enrollment channels. Includes a Cloudflare Radar chart as a second, independent data source. Cloudflare puts North American Linux desktop requests at 6.3% over the trailing year, well below Statcounter's figure, but both show a step change in the same weeks. The disagreement between the two sources reinforces the article's point that Linux is hard to count from the outside. Intended for use in ads and other traffic-driving placements. Notes for reviewers: - Capability claims (LUKS2 enforcement on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Fedora with escrowed recovery keys, `.deb`/`.rpm`/`.tar.gz` and script-only packages, vulnerability detection including CISA KEV, remote script execution, remote lock and wipe, self-service, supported distro list) are grounded against `website/views/pages/linux-management.ejs`. Please confirm they are still accurate. - The article states that encryption enforcement covers a narrower set of distributions than the overall support list, which is intentional. - Statcounter figures are cited via Linuxiac; a Sources section attributes both Statcounter and Cloudflare Radar, and the chart carries inline attribution and a capture date. - `publishedOn` is set to `2026-08-02`. Bump if this merges later. - Byline is set to Allen Houchins. # Checklist for submitter - [ ] Content reviewed for Fleet voice and style (`content-style`) and article format (`fleet-article-formatting`) - [ ] Capability claims verified against the Linux management page and docs - [ ] Source attribution confirmed for Statcounter, Linuxiac, and Cloudflare Radar - [ ] Article renders correctly on the website, including the chart image
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Open-source platform for IT and security teams with thousands of computers. Designed for APIs, GitOps, webhooks, YAML, and humans.
What's it for?
Fleet gives you a single system to secure and maintain all your computing devices over the air. You can do MDM, patch stuff, deploy software, and verify anything, all from one place, across every OS your organization uses.
Fleet works directly with data and events from the native operating system, down to the bare metal. Strong diagnostics let you investigate errors on end-user devices and collect accurate audit evidence in minutes.
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Fleet is used in production by IT and security teams managing thousands of devices. Many deployments support tens of thousands of hosts, and a few large organizations manage 400,000 or more.
Supported platforms
- Linux (all distros)
- macOS
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- Chromebooks
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Infrastructure as code
Manage your fleet with GitOps, or use the GUI, REST API, webhook events, and the fleetctl command-line tool.
Linux support
First-class support for all major distros. Linux gets the same attention and visibility as macOS and Windows.
Visibility and compliance
Fleet can report on hundreds of attributes across your devices and ships with CIS benchmarks for macOS and Windows and comprehensive operating system, hardware, and software data. Check out the table reference documentation to see what's available.
Open by design
Fleet is open source and transparent about what it can and can't see. End users can verify exactly how the agent works and what data their company collects. Fleet collects only the data needed to manage and secure devices, not private activity like keystrokes, emails, or webcams.
Good neighbors
Ready-to-use, enterprise-friendly integrations exist for Snowflake, Splunk, GitHub Actions, Vanta, Elastic Jira, Zendesk, and more. Fleet also works with tools such as Munki, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CrowdStrike, and SentinelOne.
Lighter than air
Fleet is lightweight and modular. You can use it for MDM without using it for security, and vice versa. You can turn off features you are not using.
Free as in free
The free version of Fleet will always be free. Fleet is independently backed and actively maintained with the help of many amazing contributors.
Longevity
The company behind Fleet is founded (and majority-owned) by true believers in open source. The company's business model is influenced by GitLab (NYSE: GTLB), with great investors, happy customers, and the capacity to become profitable at any time.
Fleet Device Management's company handbook is public and open source. You can read about the history of Fleet and our commitment to improving the product.
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Contributions are welcome, whether you answer questions on Slack / GitHub / LinkedIn, improve the documentation or website, write a tutorial, give a talk at a conference or local meetup, give an interview on a podcast, troubleshoot reported issues, or submit a patch. The Fleet code of conduct is on GitHub.
License
The free version of Fleet is available under the MIT license. The commercial license is also designed to allow contributions to paid features for users whose employment agreements allow them to contribute to open source projects. (See LICENSE.md for details.)
Fleet is built on osquery, nanoMDM, Nudge, and swiftDialog.