How many stars does torvalds/linux have?
GitHub currently reports 241,278 stars for torvalds/linux. The chart separately represents 240,891 public star actions and can differ because public WatchEvents do not include unstars.
torvalds/linux
Star momentum, maintenance concentration, contributor health, and codebase change — one report built from public repository data.
- Current GitHub stars
- 241,278
- Activity since
- 2011
- Latest activity
- Jul 29, 2026
Public star activity
coverage through Jul 2026
Approximate public star activity
Observed activity milestones: 100 around Sep 20111k around Sep 201110k around Dec 2013100k around Jan 2020
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Earned badges
badge studioEmbeddable maintenance, ownership, and star-momentum signals, computed from commit and star history.
Where changes concentrate
methodologyFix-labelled changes, file change frequency, ownership risk, and maintenance cadence for torvalds/linux, each computed from its analyzed commit window.
Fix-labelled changes
File change frequency
Bus factor
Maintenance pulse
Contributors
Language activity
Commit activity
Recent TODO/FIXME movement
Stars versus package downloads
No published package detected for this repo — nothing to overlay against star growth.
torvalds/linux at a glance
What does recent star activity look like for linux?
gitdebt observed about 671 public star actions for torvalds/linux over the latest 90 days of archive coverage (about 39 in the latest 30). This is an approximate attention signal, not a net-star count, because unstars are not present. That's below its lifetime average activity pace, which is common for mature projects.
Is linux still active?
Public archive data shows about 39 star actions for torvalds/linux in the latest 30 days of coverage. For repository activity, use the commit heatmap, commit trend, and contributor charts on this page.
When was linux created?
torvalds/linux was created on September 4, 2011. The first public star activity observed for torvalds/linux is from Sep 2011.