Linus Torvalds: 'Linux is bloated'

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:29:35PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> 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

That's the i386+ppc version.  It's about half that for one architecture.
Still, 4MB is a lot for a microkernel isn't it?

> 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

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Len Sorensen
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