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Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet: Greg K-H (cio.com)

Posted by msmash on from the love-for-Linux dept.

sfcrazy writes: Greg Kroah-Hartmant, the Linux superstar, delivered a keynote at CoreOS Fest where he gave some impressive details on how massive is the Linux project. Kroah-Hartman said the latest release (4.5) made two months ago contains over 21 million lines of code. More impressive than the amount of code, and what truly makes Linux the world's largest software project is the fact that last year around 4,000 developers and at least 440 different companies that contributed to the kernel. Kroah-Hartman said, "It's the largest software development project ever, in the history of computing -- by the number of people using it, developing it, and now using it, and the number of companies involved. It's a huge number of people."

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  1. Superstar? by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Greg Kroah-Hartmant, the Linux superstar,"

    Uh, what? There are only two superstars in Linux: Linus and the guy who came up with systemd.

    1. Re:Superstar? by cfalcon · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I downvote all systemd rants. Alas... I ran out already.

      Well, you HAD more mod points, but they are in some binary log format, and good luck finding them.

    2. Re: Superstar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're going to Helsinki for that one.

  2. Circular... by Matheus · · Score: 3, Funny

    "by the number of people using it, developing it, and now using it" ...I was using it before BUT now, after developing it, I'm *really using it now... :)

  3. Re:21 million ain't all that big... by The-Ixian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah and you'd never know it... SAP being such a lightweight and straightforward product...

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