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Linux kernel contains over thirty million lines of code

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What started as an unassuming student's weekend hobby project is now a bloated, gigantic monolith. It inexplicably powers almost every modern web server on the planet, despite being so large no single human can comprehend it.

Linux kernel contains over thirty million lines of code
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