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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2300 comp.os.linux.misc:12769 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 11 Apr 1994 18:08:58 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 10 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr11190858@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> References: <CnH9JG.3Ap@hippo.ru.ac.za> <yX2Lkc3w165w@oasys.pc.my> NNTP-Posting-Host: sentnl.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: othman@oasys.pc.my's message of Mon, 11 Apr 94 10:09:09 +800 In article <yX2Lkc3w165w@oasys.pc.my> othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes: Warning! Shared libs will slow down your machine and save only little of your overall disk space(only 10%), because data is much more than code. What?? That's a completely ludicrous assertion! A shared X distribution alone will save you LOADS of space.. I could not run a full FreeBSD + X system off an 80MB laptop without shared libraries. Jordan