kernel

The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems.[6] It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software.[7] The Linux kernel is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2),[4] (plus some firmware images with various licenses), and is developed by contributors worldwide. Day-to-day development takes place on the Linux kernel mailing list. The Linux kernel was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science student[8] Linus Torvalds in 1991. Linux rapidly accumulated developers and users who adopted code from other free software projects for use with the new operating system.[9] The Linux kernel has received contributions from thousands of programmers.[10] Many Linux distributions have been released based upon the Linux kernel.
Current version: 5.7

History

Effective Date Table ID Version Download URL Project URL Version URL
2024-08-26 12 6.6.0 download project version
2022-03-31 11 5.7 download project version
2020-12-22 10 5.7 download project version
2019-01-17 9 4.17.2 download project version
2017-07-13 8 4.7 download project version
2015-06-25 7 3.13.5 download project version
2014-03-07 6 3.6.1 download project version
2013-09-10 5 3.6.1 download project version
2012-10-31 4 3.1.0 download project version
2012-05-01 3 3.1.0 download project version
2005-11-08 2 2.6.14.2 download project version