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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
1
Git Repositories
linux
Started
1996-05-15 10,490 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
186,618 #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 2,441 #16 565 #6
90 12,290 #9 1,860 #1
365 77,252 #8 5,015 #1
1095 252,038 #6 9,587 #2
All time 1,333,765 28,496
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Linus Torvalds 252 718 42,126
2 Arnd Bergmann 60 153 11,504
3 David S. Miller 2 17 14,796
4 Jakub Kicinski 117 287 5,606
5 Christoph Hellwig 64 101 9,857
6 Mark Brown
Arm
19 83 10,460
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 44 80 3,894
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 27 84 9,405
10 Andy Shevchenko 3 36 5,751
11 Kent Overstreet 4 175 2,321
12 Ville Syrjala 0 40 5,631
13 Geert Uytterhoeven 6 46 6,603
14 Johannes Berg 1 47 6,362
15 Thomas Gleinxer 1 35 6,992
16 Al Viro 5 30 7,732
17 Eric Dumazet 15 64 5,312
18 Jani Nikula 3 115 3,335
19 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 4 8,339
20 Rafael J. Wysocki 22 55 5,307
Contributing Companies

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