Chapter 1. Introduction
Linux is a relatively new operating system that has begun to enjoy a lot of attention from the business, academic and free software worlds. As the operating system matures, its feature set, capabilities and performance grow, but so, out of necessity does its size and complexity. Table 1.1 shows the size of the kernel source code in bytes and lines of code of the mm/ part of the kernel tree. This size does not include the machine-dependent code or any of the buffer management code and does not even pretend to be an accurate metric for complexity, but it still serves as a small indicator.
Table 1.1. Kernel Size as an Indicator of Complexity
Version | Release Date | Total Size | Size of mm/ | Line Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1.0 | March 13, 1992 | 5.9MiB | 96KiB | 3,109 ... |
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