LF Edge

LF Edge is part of the non-profit Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation launched it on January 24, 2019 as an umbrella for edge computing, aiming at an open framework that doesn’t depend on any one kind of hardware, silicon, cloud or operating system. It started with five projects and more than 60 member organisations, including Arm, AT&T, Dell EMC, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Samsung and ZEDEDA. Two projects that already lived at the Linux Foundation moved in: EdgeX Foundry, from Dell, and the Akraino Edge Stack, from AT&T. Samsung seeded a new Home Edge project and ZEDEDA contributed Project EVE, an operating system for edge hardware.

In October 2026 its projects page listed 14 active projects: five at the Impact stage (Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE, Fledge and Open Horizon), three at Growth (EdgeLake, FIDO Device Onboard and State of the Edge) and six At-Large (eKuiper, InfiniEdge AI, InstantX, NanoMQ, Nexoedge and Ocre), plus three in an Emeritus tab (Alvarium, Baetyl and Home Edge). Each project keeps its own technical steering committee; LF Edge’s Technical Advisory Council (TAC) coordinates between them and votes new projects in, and a Governing Board of paying members handles the budget.

For someone choosing a technology, an LF Edge badge says the project’s name and governance sit with the Linux Foundation rather than the company that started it, and that the TAC has looked at it. The stage says more than the badge: Impact means a project the TAC considers self-sustaining and widely used in production, while At-Large is the entry level, which the TAC describes as typically early-stage. Many projects were started by a single company and still lean on it: eKuiper and NanoMQ come from EMQ, which pairs them with its EMQX broker, and EVE from ZEDEDA. The projects target factories, vehicles, shops and telecom sites, so most are a long way from the cloud services elsewhere in this handbook.