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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2148 comp.os.linux.misc:11956 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Mar31.133050.9051@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> <1994Mar28.123516.20304@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <2ncf66$35c@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 13:30:50 GMT Lines: 18 In article <2ncf66$35c@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net (Francois Berjon) writes: >Alan Cox wrote: >> Out of curiosity I got the README entries for all the packages on my machine >> and the size of source + build space. To make world my entire system I'd >> need 4.6Gb of disk space, or 3.1Gb assuming I did a make clean on each >> package after building. Whoopee... There are good reasons for binary >> releases at time. > >Odd, considering that last time I rebuilt the world on my FreeBSD machine, >it was done within roughly 50MB of disk space... (add 70MB for the full >source code). You misunderstand. Thats what it would take to build Linux _ all the tools and packages I have from scratch (ie gcc,g++,gdb,X386,Khoros,Magic,gpc(alpha), numerous kits of our own, xntp, [and so on]). Alan