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torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Ship machine

Overall

89.4

/ 100

Roasts

The small side project

Linux is technically a side project here, in the same way a continent is a side yard: casually maintained, impossible to ignore, and somehow still surrounded by other hobbies.

Pedal to the metal

Guitarpedal brings kernel-founder energy to stompboxes: because apparently the signal chain also needed a maintainer with opinions about low-level plumbing.

Noise with a roadmap

Audionoise sounds like the rare project whose name doubles as both its premise and its release notes: ambitious enough to be technical, honest enough to warn the neighbors.

Editor fatigue

Uemacs is a wonderfully compact monument to the belief that if the perfect editor does not exist, one should simply add another editor to the world.

One shape outside the box

The archived OpenSCAD project is the portfolio’s brief escape from C: proof that even a systems-heavy workshop occasionally makes room for something you can rotate in three dimensions.

Category breakdown

Consistency

The portfolio shows repeated activity across several years, including recent pushes to multiple owned repositories, with one older project and a few forks adding some variation.

Impact

Linux is an exceptionally ambitious and consequential project, while the surrounding tools and experiments suggest a coherent systems-oriented portfolio with several distinctive side projects.

Quality

The repository metadata supports strong maturity signals through substantial, long-lived projects and focused systems work, but source, tests, CI, documentation, and implementation details are unavailable.

Breadth

Most repositories use C and center on systems or hardware-adjacent work, with some C++, OpenSCAD, audio, editor, conversion, and device-oriented variety.

Depth

The portfolio is anchored by sustained ownership of Linux and supplemented by multiple substantial non-fork projects, with activity continuing across a long time span.

Community

The profile has unusually strong visible community reach and several widely recognized repositories; this is used only as a weak positive tie-breaker and does not determine the other scores.

Stats

52-week commit heatmap

352 active days

Language distribution

3 langs

C84%
C++8%
OpenSCAD8%

Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.

Numbers

Public repos

315690

Followers

3362

Commits

History

Top repos

torvalds/linux

100

A foundational, exceptionally ambitious C operating-system kernel project with extraordinary longevity and scope.

C · ★ 242285

torvalds/hunspellcolorize

A focused C utility project with a distinctive text-processing premise and recent maintenance signals.

C · ★ 360

torvalds/guitarpedal

A specialized C hardware or music-oriented project whose premise suggests purposeful systems experimentation.

C · ★ 2228

torvalds/audionoise

A focused C audio project with a clear technical theme and notable standalone ambition.

C · ★ 4451

torvalds/uemacs

A substantial C editor project, notable for tackling a classic systems-programming tool with ongoing activity.

C · ★ 2097

torvalds/test-tlb

A targeted C test project centered on low-level memory-translation behavior, suggesting focused systems investigation.

C · ★ 1040

torvalds/libgit2

A C fork of libgit2; the metadata indicates relevant technical scope, but ownership and originality are harder to establish from fork status alone.

C · ★ 377

torvalds/pesconvert

A standalone C conversion utility with a focused domain and evidence of sustained work through 2022.

C · ★ 566

torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk

A C++ fork of Subsurface, apparently maintained for a specific purpose, though fork status limits what can be inferred about original scope.

C++ · ★ 467

torvalds/libdc-for-dirk

A C fork of libdc with a specialized purpose, but the available metadata provides limited evidence of independent ownership.

C · ★ 396

torvalds/1590a

An archived OpenSCAD design project with a distinctive non-C dimension, though archival status suggests limited current maintenance.

OpenSCAD · ★ 571

torvalds/scrollwheel

A focused C project involving an input-device concept, with recent activity and a clear hardware-oriented premise.

C · ★ 363

Timeline

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How this score was produced

This page renders one accepted, subject-bound rating-rubric/3 result from the immutable public U1 release. Missing evidence is kept unavailable instead of inferred.

Scores are not a security audit, endorsement, or guarantee of current repository behavior.

Rated 2026-08-10 · rating-rubric/3 · aging