The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday by the Linux Foundation and ...
The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...
The Linux kernel maintainers have taken the decision to go ahead with dropping support for old CPU architectures in an upcoming release. As a result, Linux 4.17 kernel will ship with a whopping ...
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When Linux 6.13 was released at the beginning of the week on January 20, the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines, documentation, ...
Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...
The Linux Foundation has published its third annual report about Linux kernel authorship. The statistics included in the paper illustrate growth trends in the kernel development process and provide ...
According to Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux), kernel 6.14 is "tiny." He also said this: "Of course, 'tiny' for us still means that there's half a million lines changed and more than 10k commits ...