>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 G

>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...