Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

The total size of the kernel grew from 13 million lines of code and 33,000 ... A graph included in the Linux Foundation report shows how contributions from various companies have evolved over time.

Linux kernel version 5.8 is about the same size as Linux 4.9 from 2016, which Torvalds at the time crowned the "the biggest we've ever had" and spanned over 22 million lines of code.

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 ...

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 ...

The number of lines of source code comprising Linux kernel files recently surpassed the ten million mark after the latest release of Linux version 2.6.27, an analysis has found.

Aug 25, 2020 09:00:00 A Linux kernel patch with 27,000 lines of code written in one file can be sent. The Linux kernel, one of the most famous open source projects, is ...

The Linux Foundation has published a report with statistics about the growth and authorship of the Linux kernel. The kernel consists of over 13 million lines of code contributed by thousands of ...

More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year.

The Linux kernel, which is currently 20.3 million lines of code long, looks set to go on a bit of a diet by version 4.17. 500,000 lines of code will be shed thanks to architecture deprecation.

The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. Topics Spotlight: Managing modern risks ...

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 ...