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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2159 comp.os.linux.misc:12102 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!hookup!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!frmug.fr.net!gwynedd.frmug.fr.net!fcb From: fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net (Francois Berjon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 30 Mar 1994 18:07:52 GMT Organization: The Gwynedd System Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2ncf66$35c@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com> <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> <1994Mar28.123516.20304@uk.ac.swan.pyr> NNTP-Posting-Host: gwynedd.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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...) -- Francois Berjon Francois.Berjon@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net