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SubjectRe: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?
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> done (if anything) on the issue of the staggering size of the kernel
> source. Currently I see that 2.2.1 is around 12MB (Bzip2 is around 10MB).
> After decompression it'll be much to huge for any of the machines I
> currently have running Linux.

I don't know what on earth you've done to make it quite that big. My
kernel image (including scsi and other stuff) is 1Mb.

> I initially became interested in Linux because of the fact that it'd run on
> the 486/66 w/ the 540MB HDD that I had spare. Now with the kernel reaching
> some 40MB I'm tempted to move to something slimmer, like FreeBSD.

Sounds like you confuse the source tree and the binary tree. The source tree
is large because it supports a lot of machines

Alan


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