Statistics
Not exactly news, since Aaron already linked to it. 
I was a bit bored yesterday, while waiting for a compile to finish. So I decided to act through on an idea which came up on IRC.
Using LOC counting statistics on KDE.
I decided to only count the upcoming KDE 3.5 branch. No qt-copy, no extragears, no office, just plain KDE as it is released next month.
Here are the complete statistics.
Some significant numbers:
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 4,231,914
Some fun numbers:
estimated Person-Months: 15,419.66
years of schedule: 8.13
with estimated number of devels: 158
estimated cost: $ 173,582,244
generated using David A. Wheeler’s SLOCCount
The tool is pretty good at getting numbers, but as any statistics, it has limitations.
Do not get too excited by these numbers, especially the amounts of money.
The LOC count, which is why I did this in the first place, is impressive though. Only 4 Million lines of code provide this level of functionality.
There are other tools out there, but this one worked best with KDEs various languages. I bet the Java count will go up quite a bit in the KDE4 series. 
Administrative Sidenote: This server physos.org now uses hotlink prevention. Details here.
