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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:52:25 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>If you only distribute binaries, then there isn't a problem.
STOP SAYING THAT. I don't want 2Mb binaries for every GUI app.
A statically linked app is a BROKEN app. Fine for demos, but crap
for something to standardize on.
I have 3 copies of the netscape binary running on my machine (one local,
one displaying on an X-Terminal in my kitchen, and one displaying on my
SO's machine), so I had to get an extra 16M of RAM. And that's just *ONE*
application.
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Warwick
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