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The arrival of the Linux Kernel 4.12 at the weekend brought a boat load of big changes (including two I/O schedulers) but do you know how big it is?
Well, it's easy to see in this chart shared by kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman which details exactly how big the release is. graphic
"Linux 4.12 is big, really big, like bigger than you thought big", [Greg] says in an update on his Google+ profile.
It took 63 days to create Linux 4.12, during which a total of 14,570 commits were made across 59,806 files.
With 24,170,860 [...] lines of code in the Linux kernel 4.12, that works out at a boggling 795.58 lines of code added per hour.
Linus Torvalds commented on the size of the latest stable release in his mailing list post to announce the release, saying:
"As mentioned over the various rc announcements, 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically, and I think only 4.9 ends up having had more commits [...] 4.12 is just plain big."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @07:30PM
I didn't want to lay the blame on millenials, but the writing style reminded me of typical ad infested short lived online e-zines of yesterday's early internet. filled with gee whiz claims and name dropping people only geeks would have a clue about, citing facts and figures that mean nothing to anyone that is hard core.
meaning, even if you couldnt tell from the name, it's an enthusiastic enthusiast who could even just be some sort of paid marketing shill, and not a real hard core/smart person that knows what he or she is doing.
no one claims the stuff that person claimed, if trying to impress other techs. instead, it reads like a canned template, like cosmo's steps to make someone go wild, repeated every few years with a few new cultural references to keep it relevant to new readers since all the old ones have left.
(granted, i would like to have someone get me to go wild... but ubuntu is not the way to do it, nor with the facts sited... geek I am, dweeb I am not)