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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 12 Apr 94 02:51:36 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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References: <CnH9JG.3Ap@hippo.ru.ac.za> <yX2Lkc3w165w@oasys.pc.my> <JKH.94Apr11190858@sentnl.ilo.dec.com>
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In <JKH.94Apr11190858@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
>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.
Exactly. The non-shared XFree86-2.0 binary dir was roughly 24 meg
when I first installed it. The shared bin dir was 4 meg. My
calculator must be broken, because I can't seem to get that to come
out to 10%... ;-)
Granted, *overall* disk space is not impacted quite so incredibly, but
if the overal savings in disk space comes out to about 50 meg (which
is entirely within reason to expect), I'd say that's well worth it.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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