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Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade (www.tomshardware.com)
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Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 30 points 3 months ago

An awful lot of that growth is drivers. Consequence of being a monokernel.

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