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#kernel (30 Repositories)

Ranked open-source repositories tagged with #kernel, scored by pull request acceptance likelihood and maintainer engagement velocity.

Topic Avg Merge Rate

66.4%

Avg Review Latency

13.4h

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30 repositories tagged #kernel

A TierGo 6.3k

google/syzkaller

syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer

81.6%
Merge Rate
3d
First Review
73%
1st-Timers
17
Maintainers
A TierShell 5.5k 13 GFIs

armbian/build

The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete toolchain and scripts required to compile custom OS images from source, including kernel configuration, U-Boot handling, and board-specific tweaks for various ARM and ARM64 single-board computers.

78.4%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
76%
1st-Timers
86
Maintainers
A TierC 5.0k 1 GFIs

cilium/tetragon

eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement

60.4%
Merge Rate
3h
First Review
63%
1st-Timers
33
Maintainers
A TierGo 25.6k 13 GFIs

cilium/cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

64.7%
Merge Rate
13h
First Review
47%
1st-Timers
207
Maintainers
A TierC 1.6k 3 GFIs

embox/embox

Modular and configurable OS for embedded applications

82.6%
Merge Rate
3h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierKotlin 4.4k

KernelSU-Next/KernelSU-Next

An advanced Kernel based root solution for Android

57.6%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
33%
1st-Timers
24
Maintainers
A TierC++ 33.9k 1 GFIs

SerenityOS/serenity

The Serenity Operating System 🐞

72.1%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
76%
1st-Timers
25
Maintainers
A TierGo 19.6k

google/gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers

33.9%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
37%
1st-Timers
97
Maintainers
A TierGo 127

kubernetes-sigs/kernel-module-management

The kernel module management operator builds, signs and loads kernel modules in Kubernetes clusters.

82.6%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
75%
1st-Timers
7
Maintainers
A TierRust 1.5k

hermit-os/kernel

A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel.

70.7%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
56%
1st-Timers
14
Maintainers
A TierRust 6.5k

tock/tock

A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

64.1%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
62%
1st-Timers
35
Maintainers
A TierShell 606 2 GFIs

luainkernel/lunatik

Lunatik is a framework for scripting the Linux kernel with Lua.

43.7%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
4
Maintainers
A TierRust 4.9k

asterinas/asterinas

Asterinas aims to be a production-grade Linux alternative—memory safe, high-performance, and more.

54.8%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
55%
1st-Timers
52
Maintainers
A TierRust 275

iopsystems/rezolus

High-resolution, low-overhead systems and service telemetry

63.0%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
A TierGo 3.1k

u-root/u-root

A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.

73.2%
Merge Rate
23h
First Review
62%
1st-Timers
19
Maintainers
A TierC++ 2.9k

Luce-Org/lucebox

LLM speculative inference server for heterogeneous hardware & consumer GPUs

66.8%
Merge Rate
5d
First Review
69%
1st-Timers
18
Maintainers
A TierGo 488

aquasecurity/btfhub

BTFhub, in collaboration with the BTFhub Archive repository, supplies BTF files for all published kernels that lack native support for embedded BTF. This joint effort ensures that even kernels without built-in BTF support can effectively leverage the benefits of eBPF programs, promoting compatibility across various kernel versions.

91.7%
Merge Rate
<1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierRust 236 5 GFIs

DecapodLabs/decapod

Repo-native governance kernel for bounded, convergent, proof-backed agent work.

93.0%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierC 18.2k

reactos/reactos

A free Windows-compatible Operating System

39.8%
Merge Rate
4h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
40
Maintainers
A TierTETeX 8.6k

sysprog21/lkmpg

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (updated for 5.0+ kernels)

100.0%
Merge Rate
<1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierKotlin 19.1k

tiann/KernelSU

A Kernel based root solution for Android

44.3%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
51
Maintainers
A TierC++ 535 1 GFIs

KSwordDEV/KSword

[Windows Anti-Rootkit] KSword 5.1 is an source-available Windows toolkit for ARK, kernel debugging, and system forensics. KSword 5.1 是面向 Windows 的源码可见 ARK、内核调试与系统取证工具集。

96.2%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
B TierPython 138

evdenis/cvehound

Check linux sources dump for known CVEs.

100.0%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierGo 2.6k 7 GFIs

kubearmor/KubeArmor

Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (LSM-BPF, AppArmor).

39.4%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
23%
1st-Timers
34
Maintainers
A TierC 3.8k 1 GFIs

cilium/pwru

Packet, where are you? -- eBPF-based Linux kernel networking debugger

63.6%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
33%
1st-Timers
8
Maintainers
B TierShell 4.6k 1 GFIs

CachyOS/linux-cachyos

Archlinux Kernel based on different schedulers and some other performance improvements.

33.3%
Merge Rate
9h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
89
Maintainers
A TierPython 225

jameschapman19/cca_zoo

Canonical Correlation Analysis Zoo: A collection of Regularized, Deep Learning based, Kernel, and Probabilistic methods in a scikit-learn style framework

70.8%
Merge Rate
<1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
B TierPython 737

ipython/ipykernel

IPython Kernel for Jupyter

75.0%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierKotlin 8.0k

bmax121/APatch

The patching of Android kernel and Android system

52.4%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
75%
1st-Timers
7
Maintainers
B TierC 487 1 GFIs

armbian/linux-rockchip

Customized version of the Linux kernel maintained by Armbian team to support Rockchip SoCs

41.4%
Merge Rate
24h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
17
Maintainers
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