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From: fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net (Francois Berjon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: 30 Mar 1994 18:07:52 GMT
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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).

Your figures seem really _way_ off the mark (or the *BSD teams have added
gigabytes of source code since the last release...)
	
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Francois Berjon                         Francois.Berjon@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net