Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:24:36 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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