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by mickael-kerjean 168 days ago
In section 6: "tar files ... of the Linux kernel sources ... version ... 1.99.10 ... are approximately 24MB in size ... Out of the 2441 files in the 2.0.0 release 291 files had changed"

It never crossed my mind Linux at some point only had 2441 files and you could actually parse the code that went through a new version, that time has sailed