Linux is the largest software development project on the planet : Greg Kroah-Hartman

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  • Linux is the largest software development project on the planet: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    http://www.cio.com/article/3069529/linux/linux-is-the-largest-software-development-project-on-the-planet-greg-kroah-hart

    Greg Kroah-Hartman is second in command in the Linux kernel community. In addition to doing great work on device drivers, he also maintains the stable tree of the Linux kernel.

    In his keynote presentation at CoreOS Fest in Berlin this week, Kroah-Hartman offered some inside perspective on just how massive the #Linux_kernel project is. And I also had a chance to sit down with him to talk about the kernel and security.

    Let’s start with the code base. Kroah-Hartman said the latest release (4.5) made two months ago contains over 21 million lines of code.

    More impressive than the amount of code, and what truly makes #Linux the world’s largest software project is the fact that last year around 4,000 developers and at least 440 different companies that contributed to the kernel. Kroah-Hartman said, “It’s the largest software development project ever, in the history of computing — by the number of people using it, developing it, and now using it, and the number of companies involved. It’s a huge number of people.” [...]