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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.
There were nearly 75,000 code commits to the kernel during 2019 which is actually slightly down on 2018 (80,000 commits), and the lowest number since 2013. The top contributors by email domain were Intel and Red Hat (Google's general gmail.com aside) and the top contributing individuals were Linus Torvalds, with 3.19 per cent of the commits, followed by David Miller (Red Hat) and Chris Wilson (Intel). There were 4,189 different contributors overall.
Another point of interest is that systemd, a replacement for init that is the first process to run when Linux starts, is now approaching 1.3 million lines of code thanks to nearly 43,000 commits in 2019. Top contributor was not systemd founder Lennart Poettering (who was second), but Yu Watanabe with 26.94 per cent of the commits.
[...] Larabel has published statistics on coding activity for the Linux kernel here and for systemd here.®
(Score: 3, Informative) by turgid on Friday January 10 2020, @09:07PM (6 children)
Slackware still has no systemd. This year will be my 25th anniversary as a Slackware user. Thanks Pat.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @10:13PM (3 children)
27 years here, come September....Shit....where did the years go?
Seconded, thanks to the experience gained hacking around with Slackware, I jumped from electronics to Linux BOFH as a career, before finally escaping the increasingly 'unfun' world IT has become (cf. systemd) and into pastures weird...
still, it's the primary OS on all my home machines, and lang may both it, and Pat's, lums reek..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @11:21PM (2 children)
looks like there are many slackers around... me it is around 26 years :D
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @12:52AM
since kernel 0.99
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @10:15AM
About 4 years of slack.
Progression went something like Redhat/Suse* - Mandrake - Mandriva - Mageia - Mint - Slackware
*For just long enough to decide I didn't like them as much as Mandrake.
(Score: 2) by srobert on Saturday January 11 2020, @06:37PM (1 child)
Slackware was my intro to Linux 24 years ago. These days I prefer Void Linux.
Slackware has no systemd, but it also has no package manager. I see that as a bad thing.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday January 11 2020, @07:31PM
Ahem... Package managers. I wrote my own one many years ago, and a build system to go with it. The lack of a package manager on Slackware isn't really a problem for me given how I use my systems, but it does have packages and I do install the bug fixes. I've never been satisfied with any of the package managers I've encountered in real life, whether that's yum/rpm, dep, SysV pkg etc. They're all broken in some way. One of these days I'm going to rewrite my own one with the benefit of 15 years of hindsight.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].