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> The linux kernel is now at 10million loc +! I dont care if you are Red Hat, you dont have enough eyeballs to properly audit that shit!

To be fair, most of that is in device drivers and other optionally compiled or non-critical pieces of code.

The common code path is extremely well tested and audited.

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Exactly. I see so many people complaining about the Linux kernel SLOC versus other kernels; it's an unfair comparison because no other modern kernel I know of has such a wide selection of in-tree drivers.

For instance, when I install Windows on a computer, I will often have to install additional chipset drivers (odd USB3.0 controller, motherboard chipset stuff, fan control). When I install Linux, all of that stuff works out of the box, no drivers necessary: it's rolled right into the kernel.

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