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-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

OMG! Ubuntu! reports

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."

Original Submission

1. "-- OriginalOwner_" - http://tinyurl.com/OriginalOwner
2. "reports" - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/linux-kernel-4-12-was-a-very-big-release#primary
3. "Linux Kernel 4.12" - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/linux-kernel-4-12-released-bfq#primary
4. "shared" - https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/WqnwNP3Jqzh?hl=en-UK#NoUsefulFragmentIdentifiers
5. "Greg Kroah-Hartman" - https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/#NoUsefulFragmentIdentifiers
6. "graphic" - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/linux-kernel-412-chart-750x452.jpg
7. "mailing list post" - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/2/164#
8. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21109

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