Can't reproduce the findings. I think this is counting all lines ever added across all commits. The current source tree is at 500k lines of C:<p>$ tokei
C: 492003, C Header: 58547<p>Total line count at 889658, "code" count at 716316, but 202314 of that is plain text which could signify documentation. It's still a lot, but not even nearly close the headline.
With the amount of systemd-related articles on Phoronix lately, I'd wager systemd clickbait/trollbait is responsible for a large part of their ad revenue...
I hate that systemd refuses to work in a chroot. With all those extra services in systemd like dns, it's impossible to run in a container or chroot... And the developers blatantly refuse to fix that.
Forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Systemd was a relatively simple service that just manages services on a cpu. I had the mental model of systemd as a cronjob on boot with status management.<p>What else does it do besides that, that warrants such an enormous complexity? I'm sure i'm missing out on a ton of features with this simple model but I haven't seen anyone else use it otherwise in the wild than a service manager.