How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?

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By EditorDavidJan 12, 2026, 5:44 am103 pts
An anonymous reader shared this report from It's FOSS: Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to find. [Though the median is 0.7 years, with the average…

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