Linus Torvalds: 'Linux is bloated'

[Howard Gibson]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:15:10 -0400
Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 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?"

Michael,

   Yes, Linux is bloated.  Perhaps, just as bloated as Windows.

   It should theoretically be possible to create a distro that would allow me to do everything I do now, and take up a quarter to half the disk space.  The only problem with it is that it would not meet your requirements.

   I remember running Linux on a 486DX266 with 20MB RAM.  Fat chance of that now.  It is a good thing disk drives are bigger, cheaper and faster.

-- 
Howard Gibson 
hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
howardg-PadmjKOQAFn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org 
http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists