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

5 3

Git Repositories

linux

Started

1996-05-15 10,553 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 561 commits #85 167 contributors #26
Past 90 days 4,687 commits #25 1,046 contributors #5
Past 365 days 65,175 commits #8 4,710 contributors #1
Past 1095 days 240,481 commits #8 9,393 contributors #2
All time 1,337,393 commits 28,626 contributors

Contributing Individuals

Commits past X days
30 90 365 1095 All
1 Linus Torvalds 104 551 2,664 7,840 42,435
2 Arnd Bergmann 1 76 584 2,508 11,520
3 David S. Miller 0 2 134 1,017 14,796
4 Mark Brown
Arm
3 34 393 1,924 10,475
5 Jakub Kicinski 26 196 979 3,050 5,699
6 Christoph Hellwig 0 69 508 1,959 9,871
7 Krzysztof Kozlowski 0 50 705 3,826 3,909
8 Uwe Kleine-König 0 0 66 3,647 5,472
9 Takashi Iwai 8 45 388 1,029 9,423
10 Andy Shevchenko 9 28 549 1,975 5,781
11 Kent Overstreet 79 110 975 2,430 2,430
12 Geert Uytterhoeven 1 18 285 1,171 6,618
13 Johannes Berg 0 5 260 1,243 6,366
14 Thomas Gleinxer 4 6 211 914 6,999
15 Ville Syrjala 0 1 375 1,325 5,633
16 Al Viro 0 28 171 477 7,760
17 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 0 21 106 8,339
18 Eric Dumazet 4 51 290 1,073 5,349
19 Rafael J. Wysocki 0 41 334 978 5,326
20 Jani Nikula 0 6 659 1,478 3,338
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