A simple analysis of the most updated version (a Git checkout) of the Linux kernel reveals that the number of lines of all its source code surpasses 10 million, but attention: this number includes blank lines, comments, and text files. With a deeper analysis thanks to the SLOCCount tool, you can get the real number of pure code lines: 6.399.191, with 96.4% of them developed in C, and 3.3% using assembler. The number grows clearly with each new version of the kernel, that seems to be launched each 90 days approximately.
It would take more than 200 developers about nine and a half years and cost $267 million to rewrite the code from scratch. Read more at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Kernel-Log-More-than-10-million-lines-of-Linux-source-files--/news/111759 -- Sharjeel http://www.sharjeel.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
