Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code 432
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."
Meh (Score:4, Funny)
AND???
In other news, trees tend to grow up unless they tend to grow down or sideways. Sharks tend to eat anything they can, unless they are not hungry.
Anonymous will beat me to FP for sure, unless they dont.
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Re:Lines of Code (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. The better metric would be how many Libraries of Congress the kernal is.
Happy Ten Million, Linux! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:linux kernel getting bloated (Score:3, Funny)
15. The Residents - Not Available [wikipedia.org]
If Obama is missing that record, I'd be glad to lend him my copy.
What about the other .3% ? (Score:5, Funny)
96,4% of them developed in C, and 3,3% using assembler
That leaves .3% that is unaccounted for. What was it written in?
Re:What about the other .3% ? (Score:5, Funny)
Visual Basic 6.
Re:What about the other .3% ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reply from actual kernel developer please . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Almost completely bug free? What are you smoking?
Re:Stolen code (Score:5, Funny)
This story (Score:3, Funny)
Basically, this story is "Linux kernel surpasses 10 million lines of code! Just kidding."
Re:Lines of Code (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Micro-kernel vs massive kernel? (Score:5, Funny)
Tanenbaum, is that you? If so, give it up! It's been 16 years and you're not fooling anybody!
Re:Meh (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah so!? Cars are also getting bigger and more complex over time, so Linux must be heading in the right direction!
Did I just... ? Oh sh-
Re:What about the other .3% ? (Score:2, Funny)
That leaves .3% that is unaccounted for. What was it written in?
Asgard?
Re:assembler? (Score:5, Funny)
Sure it is, why, I was assembly some assembler code just the other day. I was using my assemble to do it.
Re:Reply from actual kernel developer please . . . (Score:3, Funny)
I'm just curious because keeping 6+ million lines of code almost completely bug free is pretty amazing.
Yes, that would be amazing.
Re:Stolen code (Score:5, Funny)
only in the Debian version
Re:Meh (Score:1, Funny)
Re:assembler? (Score:5, Funny)
I realize English is hard for you, but you can usually use verbs as nouns, and nouns as verbs.
It's better if you don't. Verbing weirds language.
Not very informative. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Stolen code (Score:5, Funny)
Take one down, pass it around, 9,999,998 lines of code from SCO
Re:Reply from actual kernel developer please . . . (Score:5, Funny)
>>There are literally thousands of men runnning the code on even more setups regularly
Plus upwards of 7 women!
Re:Can this be converted into kloc ? (Score:5, Funny)
You could try:
DIVIDE SLOC BY 1000 GIVING KLOC.
Re:Meh (Score:2, Funny)
>> trees tend to grow up unless they tend to grow down or sideways.
Of course you can expect a dramatic reduction in source code size as the 2.8 finally introduces C++, the full OO paradigm, several Go4 official design patterns, and a bit of eXtreme Programming in order to recruit more young programmers.
Re:Happy Ten Million, Linux! (Score:5, Funny)
Now, where do we find a birthday cake with ten million candles?
At John McCain's Birthday Party?
Re:Lines of Code (Score:3, Funny)
>at 100 characters per line
No no, you are thinking of Java. Linux is written in C
Re:assembler? (Score:3, Funny)
I agree. That's why I always write "anal-retentive" as a single word, with a hyphen.
Re:Lines of Code (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re: so freaking what? (Score:5, Funny)
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).
Re: so freaking what? (Score:5, Funny)
It's COBOL, that crap is still just everywhere.
Re:Isn't that normal? (Score:3, Funny)
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.