Over the 25 years of its existence, the Linux kernel has grown from 10,000 lines of code to more than 21 million, according to a report released by the Linux Foundation. The report, authored by ...

The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday by the Linux Foundation and ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel currently consists of approximately 13 million lines of code across over 33,000 files. The rate of development peaked with version 2.6.30 last year ...

alongside the release of Linux 3.0. The total size of the kernel grew from 13 million lines of code and 33,000 files in 2010 to 15 million lines of code and 37,000 files in 2011. The number of ...

simply by changing a few lines of Linux code. Working with Joe Damato at Fastly, Professor Karsten has developed a small, non ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada found that modifying just 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel could cut data center energy consumption by 30% ...

According to Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux), kernel 6.14 is "tiny." He also said this: "Of course, 'tiny' for us still means that there's half a million lines changed and more than 10k ...

A security researcher has discovered a security flaw in the Linux kernel using the OpenAI o3 reasoning model. An official ...

of the Linux kernel version 5.8, which contains 800,000 new lines of code and over 14,000 changed files, representing about a 20% overhaul of the kernel's files. "So I didn't really expect this ...