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Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code
javipas writes "A simple analysis of the most updated version (a Git checkout) of the Linux kernel reveals that the number of lines of all its source code surpasses 10 million, but attention: this number includes blank lines, comments, and text files. With a deeper analysis thanks to the SLOCCount tool, you can get the real number of pure code lines: 6.399.191, with 96.4% of them developed in C, and 3.3% using assembler. The number grows clearly with each new version of the kernel, that seems to be launched each 90 days approximately."
AND???
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Too bad 9,999,999 lines of that code were ripped off from SCO.
Exactly. The better metric would be how many Libraries of Congress the kernal is.
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96,4% of them developed in C, and 3,3% using assembler
That leaves .3% that is unaccounted for. What was it written in?
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Almost completely bug free? What are you smoking?
Basically, this story is "Linux kernel surpasses 10 million lines of code! Just kidding."
I'm in a software engineering class listening to how to use metrics on code.
No, you're in a software engineering class posting on Slashdot.
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Sure it is, why, I was assembly some assembler code just the other day. I was using my assemble to do it.
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I'm just curious because keeping 6+ million lines of code almost completely bug free is pretty amazing.
Yes, that would be amazing.
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This article summary is not very informative. The very least they could do is tell us which ten million lines of code Linux has surpassed.
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>>There are literally thousands of men runnning the code on even more setups regularly
Plus upwards of 7 women!
You could try:
DIVIDE SLOC BY 1000 GIVING KLOC.
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>at 100 characters per line
No no, you are thinking of Java. Linux is written in C
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I agree. That's why I always write "anal-retentive" as a single word, with a hyphen.
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I'm in a software engineering class listening to how to use metrics on code.
No, you're in a software engineering class posting on Slashdot.
You are likely to be eaten by a GNU.
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the real number of pure code lines: 6.399.191, with 96.4% of them developed in C, and 3.3% using assembler.
Personally I thought the news was that no one knows what 0.3% of the linux kernel is written in. THAT'S news! (I'm betting it's BASIC).
It's COBOL, that crap is still just everywhere.
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Well! FOR.GIVE.ME for not having read your previous one sentence interpretaion of an article based on someones opinion of a piece of literature which was authored based on a decades old view of technology. We should all now proceed to read all of AnyoneEBs comments and be enlightened by his genius insights into our world.
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