According to the Open Hub website, Linux has 37,016,567 lines of code, but this is small compared to NetBSD and OpenBSD, which have 72,065,568 and 81,902,070 lines of code, respectively.
Is there a reason why Linux has fewer lines of code compared to NetBSD and OpenBSD? I'd like to know.
12 Comments
mech@feddit.org · 70 pts · 278d
You're comparing a kernel with an entire operating system.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 277d
This.
mrus@lemmy.sdf.org · 31 pts · 278d
Your numbers don't check out, please provide sources. The Linux Kernel has around 40 million lines, the OpenBSD kernel around 7. You might have mistakenly counted OpenBSD/NetBSD as a whole system (the base installation), instead of solely the kernel.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 278d
Given BSD is supposed to be a complete package while Linux has a separate kernel and userland, that's probably why.
beutlin@feddit.org · 5 pts · 277d
Doesn't mean anything. Lines of Code is a stupid metric because it's just an absolute count. Not relative to any implemented functions, not imaging the actual density. Especially stupid because you can easily tweak the count by bloating a function.
xylogx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Is that more than the kernel? How much more?
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 278d
You're probabry including ports/ which contains all the software available for the platform
strlcpy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 278d
Those are just the packaging makefiles etc though, not the actual software sources (with some notable exceptions for bootstrapping, at least in NetBSD). Still it's comparing a kernel with an OS
steeznson@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 277d
One reason is that the coreutils in Linux use a lot of hacky or hard to read tricks to improve performance. OpenBSD explicitly wanted to make their source code more legible. FWIW I prefer the Linux approach.
Goretantath@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 278d
My best guess is bloat.
strlcpy@lemmy.sdf.org · 28 pts · 278d
No one who ever had anything to do with OpenBSD or NetBSD would venture such a "best guess"
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 277d
Ah yes. OpenBSD. Well known for bloat...
Come on.