Linus Torvalds: 'Linux is bloated'

[Jamon Camisso]

Michael Lauzon wrote:
> Interesting but extremely short article, here's a clip, the URL will follow:
> 
> "Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment
> at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: "Linux is bloated." While
> the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's
> Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft,
> heft that makes Linux "huge and scary now," according to Torvalds.
> 
> "Has Linux failed?"
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10358024-16.html

If you had to support as much hardware as the kernel does, you'd be 
bloated too no? Moreover, OSX isn't so tiny either compared to a Debian 
kernel and my initrd:

jamon at phaedrus ~ $ ls -alh /mnt/mach_kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.9M 2008-09-03 14:32 /mnt/mach_kernel

jamon at phaedrus ~ $ ls -alh /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M 2009-08-15 14:16 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64

jamon at phaedrus ~ $ ls -alh /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M 2009-09-22 12:11 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64

Jamon
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