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SubjectRe: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Michael Loftis wrote:

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> Perhaps I need to re-iterate the problem...
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> I'm not concerned about speed issues nor other issues... Simple the huge
> footprint the kernel has. Many people (like myself) run Linux on small
> systems where popping open a 40MB tarball would overfill the disks. And
> even if you 'clean out' stuff manually you'll probably not have enough
> space to compile it and you run the risk of messing up the kernel...
>
> Below is df -h from my largest system running x86 Linux here
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 382M 315M 48M 87% /
>
> As you can see there's no way Linux could be compiled. This system will be
> effectively stuck at 2.0.35 forever.
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This is not the kernel! This is about 300 megabytes of stuff that came
off a distribution disk. A lot is text in /usr/info. A system that has
a 'C' compiler and its necessary includes, X11 with its comprssed fonts,
some man pages, and a current kernel, only takes about 40 megabytes.

If you remove the man pages, you save another 15. Note that you can
make a bootable system that will run the vim editor, mount, and a
few other basic 'fix-your-system` tools on two floppy disks with
no RAM disk. I have such a rescue disk pair.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.131 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
Wisdom : It's not a Y2K problem. It's a Y2Day problem.



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