Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in whole system

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer

The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix."