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Current Newswire: Perl far from dead, more popular than you think Microsoft Exchange alternatives Kubuntu 9.10: A Mixed Bag Could Microsoft switch to Linux? Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Creating Ebooks with Sigil Editor's Note: Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver Windows 7 Sales Up, But is it Really a Hit? Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Sr Systems Engineer - Solaris, Red Hat/Linux, AIX (Houston, TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume 204.5-Million Lines of Code Equals One Great Linux Distribution Oct 22, 2008, 19 :01 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2318 reads) (Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) [ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ] "The Foundation started by using Linux and security programmer David A. Wheeler's methodology from his 2002's groundbreaking study, Linux: More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size. The results of applying these tools to 2008's Fedora 9 Linux came out to a total of 204,500,946 physical SLOC (Source Lines of Code) and a cost of $10,784,484,309. But, lucky you, you can download it for free from the Fedora Web site and you won't need to spend a penny on it." Complete Story Related Stories: Who Are The Real Friends of Linux and Free Software? Or, Linux Is Still a Dirty Word(Oct 21, 2008) How Much Have You Saved by Using GNU/Linux?(Oct 21, 2008) Linux Ecosystem Worth $25 Billion(Oct 20, 2008) Value, Value and Values in an Open Source World(Oct 14, 2008) Big Money Joins Linux Foundation(Sep 27, 2008) Editor's Note: It Is A War(Sep 12, 2008) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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