>>> Sheppard Clan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18-Feb-00 11:16:11 PM >>>
>The size of a recently released OS is apparently about 35 million
lines of
>code.
Hmmm... I wonder what OS you could mean?
To me the most pertinent question to ask (in these terms) is:
"how many *new* lines of code there are since the last release?"
I think you'll find that there are 40% more lines of code in the OS
(I suspect you're refering to) in it's latest release.
In the GNU Hurd System 80% of it (as a rough rule) is well
established, bugfixed code. The new stuff - the kernel itself - has
been in test and development for longer than NT2000 so it should be
twice as solid when it comes out.
>How big is the HURD in those terms?
Because the Hurd is FREE SOFTWARE you can do this yourself quite
easily /8->
Download the source and use find and wc to count the lines in all the
source files.
>Break it down by kernel, drivers and standard daemons
>if you can please.
Also because the HURD is a true collection of many parts (and many
well established parts) it is impossible to do this. Remember the HURD
is not "shrink wrapped" - you can configure it a number of ways.
You might want to talk to the people at the Debian project
(http://www.debian.org) who are building one particular installation
of the HURD.
Nic Ferrier
