After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity...
More than a year after the EU's repairability rules came in, there are some real signs of improvement – but also lingering questions about the difficulty and cost of repairs.
