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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
3
Decreased by 2
Git Repositories
linux
Started
1996-05-15 10,465 days ago
Categories
Operating System
Open Core Products
Open Core Company Product
RedHat (IBM) RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rocky Linux Rocky Linux
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Votes
13
GitHub Stars
185,162 #16
Stackoverflow Questions with tag linux
228,569 #20
Weekly commits since inception
1996 2010 2025
Weekly contributors since inception
1996 2010 2025
Recent Project Activity
Day Span Commits Contributors
30 459 #68 178 #16
90 9,810 #11 1,646 #3
365 74,076 #8 4,904 #1
1095 248,805 #6 9,491 #2
All time 1,324,489 28,276
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Linus Torvalds 116 600 41,851
2 Arnd Bergmann 11 132 11,424
3 David S. Miller 2 14 14,787
4 Christoph Hellwig 0 118 9,785
5 Mark Brown
Arm
2 69 10,410
6 Jakub Kicinski 16 160 5,417
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 0 53 3,805
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 4 43 9,356
10 Andy Shevchenko 0 93 5,728
11 Geert Uytterhoeven 0 25 6,568
12 Johannes Berg 0 19 6,318
13 Ville Syrjala 0 19 5,578
14 Thomas Gleinxer 0 34 6,983
15 Kent Overstreet 0 54 2,082
16 Al Viro 0 11 7,709
17 Eric Dumazet 3 40 5,273
18 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 17 8,339
19 Rafael J. Wysocki 2 58 5,278
20 Jani Nikula 0 34 3,214
Contributing Companies

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