Costs of Development of GNU/Linux
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| Operating system Lines of code
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| Microsoft Windows 3,1 (April of 1992) 3.000.000
| Sun Solaris (October of 1998) 7.500.000
| Microsoft Windows 95 (August of 1995) 15.000.000
| Network Hat Linux 6,2 (March of 2000) 17.000.000
| Microsoft Windows 2000 (February of 2000) 29.000.000
| Network Hat Linux 7,1 (April of 2001) 30.000.000
| Microsoft Windows XP (2002) 40.000.000
| Network Hat Linux 8,0 (September of 2002) 50.000.000
| Fedora Core 4 (May of 2005) 76.000.000
| Debian 3,0 (July of 2002) 105.000.000
| Debian 3,1 (June of 2005) 229.500.000
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What's noteworthy is that the fairly small Windows is in a state of utter
mess, which requires over 20 million LOC's to be (re-)written. On the
contrary, Debian is renowned for stability, reliability and security,
despite its large scale, function, and flexibility.
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