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OMG! Ubuntu! reports [omgubuntu.co.uk]

The arrival of the Linux Kernel 4.12 [omgubuntu.co.uk] 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 [google.com] by kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman [google.com] which details exactly how big the release is. graphic [omgubuntu.co.uk]

"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 [lkml.org] 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."

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