Linux has become the largest software development project in computer history

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The Linux kernel developer and maintainer, Greg Kroah-hartmant, spoke at the CoreOS Fest in Berlin, describing the size of the Linux kernel project. Kroah-hartman says the latest version of the Linux 4.5 kernel contains more than 21 million lines of code, with core code accounting for 5%, network-related code accounting for 35%, and driving more than 40%. Device vendors can choose to use the kernel code according to their needs, he says his laptop runs the kernel only 1.6 million lines of code, and your phone core may have only 2.4 million code. Kroah-hartman says the most influential place is not the number of lines of code but the number of people involved: Last year some 4,000 developers and at least 440 companies contributed code to the kernel. Depending on the number of people who are in use, the number of people who are developing,--linux is the largest software project in computer history.

Linux has become the largest software development project in computer history