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Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade (www.tomshardware.com)

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Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1.

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[–] henfredemars 6 points 6 months ago

My opinion is this isn’t a problem. There’s a lot of hardware out there, and the vast majority of that code isn’t going to be loaded into any one kernel installation.