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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Message-ID: <1993Aug20.095031.14077@swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de> <MIKE.93Aug19115915@pdx800.jf.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:50:31 GMT
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To be fair most of the 'bloat' in Linux is removable. With no networking,
no silly extra file systems, no SCSI and no SYS5 IPC Linux is still pretty
close to the size it started as (apart from the VFS).

ALan