Linux kernel
Monolithic Unix-like operating system kernel used by Linux distributions, Android and embedded devices.
Overview
Monolithic Unix-like operating system kernel used by Linux distributions, Android and embedded devices.
- Category
- Operating systems · Open source
- Platforms
- Linux
- Pricing
- Free
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Source code
- torvalds/linux
- Repository stars
- 249,430
- API
- No public API description
Release history
Updated 81 days ago1 release in the last 12 months.
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v7.2
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