Torvalds based his development on Minix GNU C compiler and it took him about 12 minutes compiling the code, which was only 62Kb.
24 years later, 4.2 version has been released and only in this latest version more than a million lines of code have been added, thanks to the developer community contributing to the project.
In order to celebrate Linux 24th birthday, here you are a video by The Linux Foundation about How Linux is built
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