Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code April 2, 2018 by admin Tweet The Linux kernel, which is currently 20.3 million lines of code long, looks set to go on a bit of a diet by version 4.17. 500,000 lines of code will be shedded thanks to architecture deprecation. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:At EA it can take a whole day to change 3 lines of codeNVIDIA has published GPU source code of its Linux…It's not just Microsoft's Windows 11, Linux is also…Microsoft releases WSL version 0.50.2 with a new…Linus Torvalds wants to drop i486 support from the…