how is it possible that 73,000 man years have been spent fine-tuning

>>56183576
Lots and lots of contributors working on it for multiple decades. It's one of humankind's crown achievements.

>>56183602

How big is the Linux kernal? what kinds of things could take that much time to do?

>>56183576
And that's just from installing gentoo.

>>56183638
As of Linux 4.1 it was up to >19.5 million lines of code.

>>56183602
why is is still shit tho ?

>>56183666
It's not, you just won't stop spouting shitty memes.

>>56183666
>the kernel that runs 90% of computer devices on planet earth
>shit
Oh right, something something bad unless I can play videogames

>>56183666
Fuck off, Satan.

>>56183664

how? all it does is bounce back malloc calls and shit

>>56183718
...and networking and manage processes and disk I/O and...

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> mfw it still has binary blobs