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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.

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[โ€“] mech@feddit.org 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're comparing a kernel with an entire operating system.

[โ€“] vext01 12 points 3 months ago