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.
You’re comparing a kernel with an entire operating system.
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.
My best guess is bloat.
Ah yes. OpenBSD. Well known for bloat…
Come on.
No one who ever had anything to do with OpenBSD or NetBSD would venture such a “best guess”
