Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:51:30 +0000 | From | Robert Wuest <> | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? |
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Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Well, actually, it is. Anyone who can afford any computer at all > can afford a few gigabytes these days.
That's not necessarily true. I work with a bunch of guys who make very little money and are always scrounging parts to enhance their machines. $200 for a disk drive is two weeks salary.
This is in Mexico where the scholarnet project is trying to put Linux in 140,000 schools and other computing centers and I work in an area where wages are "high". The people trying to come up with this many computers in Mexico are going to be doing a lot of scrounging old hardware with little money to enhance machines. And those kids are going to take home a desire to run (and grow into hackers) on Linux in a home environment where wages are often less than $1/hr.
I personally could deal with the kernel if it grows to twice the current size, but keeping it as small as possible is very __important__ for Linux's expansion onto the desktop in developing nations and hence, important for developers to keep in mind. Just a thought.
Robert
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