Your Question: How Many Kernels Are There in Linux?
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How many Linux kernels exist?

There is only one Linux kernel (The Linux Kernel Archives ). Sometimes there’s a little confusion, since open-source operating systems are often called Linux (ArchLinux, Ubuntu Linux, …). In fact, Linux is only the kernel of those OSs, which are built on top of it.

Is there only one Linux kernel?

3 Answers. You are comparing kernel and whole systems. Kernels are just the main central piece of a system, but not all of it. In fact there is no such thing as a Linux system per se, but there are countless “Gnu/Linux” or other Linux Kernel based systems (one being Android).

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