A new home for kernel.org

[Posted March 27, 2025 by corbet]

Akamai has sent out a press release saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org repositories.

The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 different companies have contributed to the Linux kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and developers update the code constantly, distributing that code to developers who are working on various distributions of Linux. Akamai now delivers the infrastructure that these developers and their users rely on, at no cost, supporting the Git environments developers use to access kernel sources quickly, regardless of where they're based.

Not all of kernel.org

Posted Mar 27, 2025 13:52 UTC (Thu) by mricon (subscriber, #59252) [Link] (1 responses)

To clarify this a little bit, it's specifically git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org. There are other parts of kernel.org that are still to be migrated out of Equinix Metal, and other parts are hosted at various other providers.

Not all of kernel.org

Posted Mar 27, 2025 14:05 UTC (Thu) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

> There are other parts of kernel.org that are still to be migrated out of Equinix Metal <...>

I just wanted to write a comment asking who was the previous host of this infrastructure, but it turns out my hunch was correct :-)

A new home for kernel.org

Not *all* of kernel.org

Not *all* of kernel.org

Not all of kernel.org

Not all of kernel.org