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It does answer communication problems though right? Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.
by d0lph 8y ago
It does answer communication problems though right? Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.
- jasode 8y ago>Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth. The Linux kernel's ~26 million lines-of-code[1] is much smaller than the proprietary code bases at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. E.g. Google had 2 billion LOC in 2015.[2] MS Windows is ~50 million LOC. All those companies have faster commit velocities to their repos than the Linux project. [1] https://phoronix.com/misc/linux-2017/index.html https://phoronix.com/misc/linux-2017/index.html [2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...