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How old is our kernel?

How old is our kernel?

Posted Feb 17, 2010 17:48 UTC (Wed) by gouyou (guest, #30290)
Parent article: How old is our kernel?

What would also be interesting is how long code survives.

I'm expecting that there is a much better chance to have some changes made on new code from the last release than on code introduced 5 releases ago.


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How old is our kernel?

Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:51 UTC (Wed) by creemj (subscriber, #56061) [Link]

Yes, like what is the half-life of code life expectancy in the kernel? And has that figure changed much over the life of the kernel? I suspect this analysis would require going back much more than five years of kernel history currently analysed.

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