How Many Lines of Code Is Linux Kernel?
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The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.

How big is Linux kernel source code?

– The Linux kernel source tree is up to 62,296 files with a total line count across all these code files and other files of 25,359,556 lines.

How big is the Linux kernel?

An ordinary stable 3* kernel is about 70 mb now. But there are little linux distributions of 30-10 mb with software and other stuff running out of the box.

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