The advancement of the Linux kernel in 2014 was nothing short of fantastic! The kernel added so many new features and is now more than 19.1 million lines of code.
Kernel development in 2014 edged past 2013 to a record high of 71,092 commits in 2014 (compared to 70.8k in 2013 and 65.4k in 2013)!
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