torvalds/linux
A repository in Git-Trust, the open-source corpus: 268 stars recorded in this snapshot. Source: https://github.com/torvalds/linux.
Is torvalds/linux safe to depend on?
Community trust supports it. Its maintainer, torvalds, has very high trust from the AI & Machine Learning community, and the signal holds across AI & Machine Learning, Web & Cloud, Terminal & CLI, Rust, Security, Native Development, China OSS, and Web3. This reads the maintainer's standing in developer communities' star graphs; it does not audit the code, the package contents, or who publishes it to a registry.
Who trusts its maintainer, as seen by each community
Each band is torvalds's standing inside one community's own star graph, from below low to very high. Evidence is thin or solid by the trust mass behind the band, with the community members who starred torvalds's repositories where there are any.
| Seen by | Trust in torvalds | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | very high | solid evidence; 50 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Web & Cloud | very high | solid evidence; 133 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Terminal & CLI | very high | solid evidence; 45 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Rust | very high | solid evidence; 13 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Security | very high | solid evidence; 5 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Native Development | very high | solid evidence; 15 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| Web3 | high | solid evidence; 3 members starred torvalds's repositories |
| China OSS | very high | solid evidence; 19 members starred torvalds's repositories |
This is graph evidence from a selected snapshot of public GitHub stars, not a live index, a rating or an endorsement.
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