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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5442 comp.os.linux.misc:35485 comp.os.os2.advocacy:79790 alt.folklore.computers:73483 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!badger From: badger@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 17 Feb 95 16:38:43 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 10 Message-ID: <badger.793039123@aries> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <damir-1002952345140001@damir.mindspring.com> <3ho4v4$1p4@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <3hsttm$2ep@sun1.bham.ac.uk> <3i2aji$80m@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: aries.scs.uiuc.edu brenta@gpr08.insa-lyon.fr (Ludovic Brenta) writes: > I wholeheartedly agree with you. OSs are supposed to make resources >available to you, not to take them away. Even OS/2 should be trimmed down >to 4 Mb (don't tell me it runs well in 4 Mb, I've tried it.) Well...I think this becoming increasingly irrelevant as memory gets cheaper. Think about even a compact operating system like Linux vs the original implementation of UNIX that ran in 64K (yes, 64 *kilobytes*). Wouldn't users of it consider Linux to be bloated?