Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:372 comp.os.386bsd.misc:716 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Message-ID: <1993Aug20.095031.14077@swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de> <MIKE.93Aug19115915@pdx800.jf.intel.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:50:31 GMT Lines: 6 To be fair most of the 'bloat' in Linux is removable. With no networking, no silly extra file systems, no SCSI and no SYS5 IPC Linux is still pretty close to the size it started as (apart from the VFS). ALan