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Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel Path: news.ka.inka.de!not-for-mail From: olaf@inka.de (Olaf Titz) Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <dt1fnb.837@inka.de> Date: 15 Jun 1996 12:54:46 +0200 References: <199606141422.JAA00459@andrewes.cnt.com> <199606141455.PAA30459@snowcrash.cymru.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapac.inka.de Lines: 20 Organization: INKA e.V., Karlsruhe
Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> wrote: > Putting out partial trees makes the main development work harder and will > cause misco-ordination. I'd not complain however if people were taking the > core distribution and doing cut downs off it for end users.
The point is not the disk usage but how it gets onto the disks. As for now, I'm stuck with floppies or modem lines and there one megabyte more or less does matter.
I still remember the "hooray... we've reached the point where Linux doesn't fit on _one_ floppy any more" posts and the suggestion to take out extfs to cure that...
olaf
-- ___ Olaf.Titz@inka.de or @{stud,informatik}.uni-karlsruhe.de ____ __ o <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/> <IRC:praetorius> __/<_ >> Just as long as the wheels keep on turning round _)>(_)______________ I will live for the groove 'til the sun goes down << ____
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