0xAX/linux-insides

A book-in-progress about the Linux kernel and its insides.

33.7k stars · 3.6k forks · Python

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 96% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 48
Human commits, 90 days: 84
Human commits, 365 days: 183
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 9%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 3
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Only 1 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 183 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 292

Top committers

0xAX: 96% of commits
ratatatKE: 1% of commits
kianmeng: 1% of commits
klaudiagrz: 1% of commits
qodroi: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Feb 22, 2015 to Feb 26, 2015: about 584 more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 22, 2015 to Mar 24, 2015: about 269 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 29, 2015 to Apr 2, 2015: about 611 more stars than usual, peak 287 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 5, 2015 to Apr 7, 2015: about 192 more stars than usual, peak 134 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 12, 2015 to Apr 13, 2015: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 19, 2015 to Apr 20, 2015: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 3, 2015 to May 5, 2015: about 263 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 10, 2015 to May 12, 2015: about 245 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 24, 2015 to May 25, 2015: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 31, 2015 to Jun 1, 2015: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 26, 2015 to Jul 29, 2015: about 238 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 2, 2015 to Aug 4, 2015: about 205 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 9, 2015 to Aug 11, 2015: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 16, 2015 to Aug 17, 2015: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2015 to Aug 28, 2015: about 622 more stars than usual, peak 260 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 30, 2015 to Sep 1, 2015: about 173 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 6, 2015 to Sep 7, 2015: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 13, 2015 to Sep 15, 2015: about 270 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 20, 2015 to Sep 23, 2015: about 382 more stars than usual, peak 203 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 30, 2015 to Jan 8, 2016: about 336 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 13, 2016 to Mar 14, 2016: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 20, 2016 to Mar 21, 2016: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 27, 2016 to Mar 30, 2016: about 422 more stars than usual, peak 241 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 3, 2016 to Apr 4, 2016: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 17, 2016 to Apr 19, 2016: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 1, 2016 to May 3, 2016: about 208 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 8, 2016 to May 9, 2016: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 10, 2016 to Jul 12, 2016: about 269 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 10, 2016 to Oct 11, 2016: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 27, 2017 to Jun 3, 2017: about 514 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 30, 2017 to Aug 1, 2017: about 298 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 7, 2018 to Jan 15, 2018: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 437 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 22, 2018 to Apr 24, 2018: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 8, 2018 to Aug 9, 2018: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 10, 2019 to Mar 14, 2019: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 14, 2021 to Aug 16, 2021: about 176 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 14, 2022 to May 30, 2022: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 307 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 22, 2022 to Nov 24, 2022: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 24, 2025 to Aug 26, 2025: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 30, 2025 to Sep 1, 2025: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 12, 2026 to Jan 13, 2026: about 350 more stars than usual, peak 326 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Apr 4, 2026 to Apr 7, 2026: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 4, 2026 to Sep 10, 2026: about 455 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.9 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: No license found
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: 0xAX/linux-insides

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

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