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Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 15 Mar 94 16:13:52
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In-reply-to: sja@snakemail.hut.fi's message of 15 Mar 94 11:24:31 GMT
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> > That was just an example. There are all sorts of areas where excess
> > junk floats in.
>
> Yes, there can be excess junk in software. In this specific case:
> where, exactly, is there excess junk in BSD?
Did I ever say there *was*? I said I'd GATHERED there was. Evidently
either things have changed, or the FAQs were/are seriously out of date
or just plain wrong.
> Oh, as we were discussing kernel bloat due to unnecessary code,
> I didn't think it might be even remotely relevant to look at
> compressed kernel sizes. Unless the CPU can execute such code
> without unreasonable overhead.
No, it's not, particularly. Linux no longer supports uncompressed
kernels, though, so I can't exactly go build one to find out how big
it is. Nor is my system fast enough to compile kernels for fun, no
matter what OS it runs.
Somebody else has said that the crap has been carefully cleaned out of
the BSD code. This is definitely admirable, not to mention rare.
(Anybody who doesn't believe that is free to examine the exponentially
growing sizes of both commercial unix kernels and typical
applications, including free applications.)
In any case, you don't need to be so hostile - you're probably
alienating people.
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