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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2528 comp.os.linux.misc:16355 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Message-ID: <1994Jun6.095836.5606@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <2smc4m$daj@Mercury.mcs.com> <WAYNE.94Jun3224657@backbone.uucp> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 09:58:36 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: >The difference is that "ls -F" doesn't mean "ls" has to suck in termlib. >Sometimes extra features are a bad idea, when they lead to code bloat. So >far Linux itself seems to have avoided this common GNU disease (at least >when compared with commercial UNIX), but with this sort of attitude it's >not going to last. Actually since the termlib is shared it takes no application space, and since without the colour option being used it never calls the term library it never gets paged in off disk (if its on disk at the time) so the actual impact is pretty close to zero. The no-feature attitude is also the reason why half the shells Im forced to use on other machines don't have sensible command line editing. On the other hand some programs take it too far (Emacs for one). Alan