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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
2
Decreased by 1
Git Repositories
linux
Started
1996-05-15 10,501 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
187,087 #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 1,004 #41 265 #12
90 9,941 #11 1,607 #2
365 74,438 #8 4,925 #1
1095 249,630 #6 9,532 #2
All time 1,333,996 28,500
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Linus Torvalds 235 694 42,158
2 Arnd Bergmann 59 94 11,506
3 David S. Miller 1 15 14,796
4 Christoph Hellwig 13 87 9,858
5 Jakub Kicinski 58 244 5,626
6 Mark Brown
Arm
2 54 10,460
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 2 80 3,894
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 8 70 9,405
10 Andy Shevchenko 8 27 5,756
11 Kent Overstreet 1 144 2,321
12 Geert Uytterhoeven 2 40 6,605
13 Ville Syrjala 0 13 5,632
14 Johannes Berg 0 44 6,362
15 Thomas Gleinxer 0 13 6,992
16 Al Viro 4 23 7,733
17 Jani Nikula 2 93 3,337
18 Eric Dumazet 5 57 5,315
19 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 2 8,339
20 Rafael J. Wysocki 18 41 5,309
Contributing Companies

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