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

4 3

Git Repositories

linux

Started

1996-05-15 10,509 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 570 commits #71 194 contributors #19
Past 90 days 9,037 commits #11 1,526 contributors #4
Past 365 days 72,717 commits #8 4,875 contributors #1
Past 1095 days 248,017 commits #6 9,501 contributors #2
All time 1,334,151 commits 28,506 contributors

Contributing Individuals

Commits past X days
30 90 365 1095 All
1 Linus Torvalds 179 579 2,804 7,928 42,182
2 Arnd Bergmann 7 92 726 2,624 11,507
3 David S. Miller 0 12 179 1,100 14,796
4 Christoph Hellwig 5 78 621 2,064 9,860
5 Jakub Kicinski 20 235 1,075 3,119 5,626
6 Mark Brown
Arm
2 56 455 2,009 10,462
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 0 80 920 3,894 3,894
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 256 3,653 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 3 69 425 1,033 9,407
10 Andy Shevchenko 5 18 706 2,027 5,757
11 Kent Overstreet 3 134 1,013 2,325 2,325
12 Geert Uytterhoeven 2 37 330 1,201 6,605
13 Johannes Berg 0 42 332 1,253 6,362
14 Ville Syrjala 0 8 455 1,470 5,632
15 Thomas Gleinxer 0 12 229 921 6,992
16 Al Viro 3 23 153 456 7,733
17 Jani Nikula 2 71 727 1,526 3,337
18 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 0 21 214 8,339
19 Eric Dumazet 3 55 377 1,063 5,315
20 Rafael J. Wysocki 2 37 376 1,001 5,309
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