{"id":121538,"date":"2025-01-29T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/yadro-linux-dostiglo-otmetki-v-40-mln-strok"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:46:07","slug":"yadro-linux-dostiglo-otmetki-v-40-mln-strok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/yadro-linux-dostiglo-otmetki-v-40-mln-strok","title":{"rendered":"The Linux kernel has reached 40 million lines of code.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
The size of the Linux kernel has reached a milestone of 40 million lines of source code. Of the 40 million lines, 24 million relate to driver code (for instance, the AMD GPU driver code accounts for about 5 million lines), and 4.4 million are specific to various hardware architectures (approximately 500 thousand lines are used to support the x86 architecture). <\/p>\n
As of July 2024, the kernel size has increased by 5 million lines. The 30 million line mark was surpassed in the summer of 2022, 20 million lines in the fall of 2015, and 10 million lines in the fall of 2008. For comparison, the release of kernel 0.0.1 included only 10,000 lines of code, while 1.0.0 had 176,000 lines. <\/p>\n
Growth dynamics of the code base (number of lines of source code) of the kernel: <\/p>\n
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0.0.1 \u2014 September 1991, 10,000 lines of code; <\/li>\n
1.0.0 \u2014 March 1994, 176,000 lines of code; <\/li>\n
1.2.0 \u2014 March 1995, 311,000 lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.0.0 \u2014 June 1996, 778,000 lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.2.0 \u2014 January 1999, 1.8 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.4.0 \u2014 January 2001, 3.4 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.6.0 \u2014 December 2003, 5.9 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.6.28 \u2014 December 2008, 10.2 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
2.6.35 \u2014 August 2010, 13.4 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
3.0 \u2014 August 2011, 14.6 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
3.5 \u2014 July 2012, 15.5 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
3.10 \u2014 July 2013, 15.8 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
3.16 \u2014 August 2014, 17.5 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
4.1 \u2014 June 2015, 19.5 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
4.7 \u2014 July 2016, 21.7 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
4.12 \u2014 July 2017, 24.1 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
4.18 \u2014 August 2018, 25.3 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
5.2 \u2014 July 2019, 26.55 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
5.8 \u2014 August 2020, 28.4 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
5.13 \u2014 June 2021, 29.2 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
5.19 \u2014 August 2022, 30.5 million lines of code; <\/li>\n
6.4 \u2014 June 2023, 32.9 million lines of code. <\/li>\n
6.10 \u2014 July 2024, 35.1 million lines of code. <\/li>\n
6.13 \u2014 January 2025, 39.8 million lines of code. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As one option to reduce the kernel's code base, it was proposed to separate drivers into a separate repository, but this proposal is not being seriously considered due to complicating the processes of testing and quality assurance, as well as arising additional labor costs for synchronizing software interfaces. When developing drivers within the main kernel, many regressions affecting drivers are immediately identified during the review process by accompanying reviewers. In the case of separated development, there is a danger that less attention will be paid to the driver code. \n Source: opennet.ru<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"