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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."
How much would it cost for them foreigners to convert there notation in US Customary?? two...three dollars tops?
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If it's well thought out and implemented by competent programmers, it will be almost bug free.
The only real testing is putting it out there and dealing with the bug reports.
It's only when you are at a company with fifty borderline idiots working on a project that you have to automate testing.
It is consistently claimed that Open Source is best because you can audit the source yourself. I challenge anyone reading this to verify 10,000,000 lines of code in their lifetimes. If they can't, then Open Source being verifiable by a person (or small organization) is impossible. At least, that's what I took from this announcement.
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Ok, 10 million, or 6 million lines of code... time to switch to a better system, Minux 3 (http://www.minix3.org) which has about 4 thousand lines of code in the kernel.
Clearly the Linux Kernel is now a mega monolithic kernel joining the ranks of Windows NT and other bloatware. Sad day for open source.