Linux

The Linux Kernel is the main component of a Linux operating system (OS) and is the core interface between a computer's hardware and its processes

Rank

6 5

Git Repositories

linux

Started

1996-05-15 10,541 days ago

Categories

Open Core Products

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RedHat (IBM)
Rocky Linux Rocky Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) SUSE

GitHub Stars

187,750 #16

Weekly commits since inception

1996 2010 2025

Weekly contributors since inception

1996 2010 2025

Recent Project Activity

Past 30 days 435 commits #122 188 contributors #22
Past 90 days 5,439 commits #19 1,162 contributors #4
Past 365 days 68,307 commits #8 4,784 contributors #1
Past 1095 days 242,925 commits #8 9,442 contributors #2
All time 1,336,877 commits 28,610 contributors

Contributing Individuals

Commits past X days
30 90 365 1095 All
1 Linus Torvalds 109 546 2,686 7,895 42,382
2 Arnd Bergmann 5 75 629 2,530 11,519
3 David S. Miller 0 3 140 1,028 14,796
4 Christoph Hellwig 6 80 521 1,999 9,871
5 Mark Brown
Arm
1 31 432 1,941 10,472
6 Jakub Kicinski 8 189 1,019 3,062 5,673
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 0 61 877 3,909 3,909
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 133 3,650 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 5 49 384 1,026 9,416
10 Andy Shevchenko 0 19 609 1,981 5,772
11 Kent Overstreet 13 50 956 2,358 2,358
12 Geert Uytterhoeven 1 24 293 1,190 6,618
13 Johannes Berg 1 43 274 1,246 6,366
14 Ville Syrjala 0 1 419 1,342 5,633
15 Thomas Gleinxer 1 2 208 914 6,995
16 Al Viro 0 41 179 477 7,760
17 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 0 21 142 8,339
18 Eric Dumazet 2 55 317 1,074 5,345
19 Rafael J. Wysocki 0 41 352 989 5,326
20 Jani Nikula 1 31 669 1,509 3,338
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