14 DAY TRIAL // Last Sunday, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 4.12 kernel as "one of the bigger releases historically," and, if you're curious to know just how big this new kernel is, maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has some stats for us.
According to the stats posted by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel 4.12 was developed during a period of 63 days, it received a total of 14.570 commits, contains a total of 59,806 files (3.18% growth), and has 24,170,860 million lines of code (4.47% growth), with 795.58 lines of code added per day.
"Linux 4.12 is big, really big, like bigger than you thought big," says Greg Kroah-Hartman in his latest Google+ post where he published the said statistics, informing his followers to ignore the "employers" numbers as they are way too low and do not reflect the reality, and that they will be updated soon."
1.2 million lines of code where added to Linux kernel 4.12
In some more interesting statistics about the development of the Linux 4.12 kernel, we can mention that a total of 1,202,920 million lines of code were added, 168.962 removed, and 141.550 modified. It also looks like a total of 1,821 developers have contributed code to the Linux 4.12 kernel series.
As for the daily stats, there were 231.27 changes made per day and 9.64 changes per hour. Continuing, there were 19,093 lines of code added per day, 2,246 lines of code changed per day, and 2,681 lines of code removed per day. So yes, Linux kernel 4.12 is big, and it's the best we have so far for our GNU/Linux distributions.
Check out the screenshot below to see how Linux kernel 4.12 compares to the Linux 4.7, Linux 4.8, Linux 4.9, Linux 4.10, and Linux 4.11 kernels. These are some very interesting stats, and we can't even wait to see just how big the Linux kernel will be when Linus Torvalds decided to release version 5.0.
