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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Date: 19 Jul 1994 17:22:03 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In article <30e681$mvh@spruce.cic.net> pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul
Southworth) writes:

   I really like Linux (it's the OS of choice for my crappy 386SL
   laptop with 4Mb RAM and only 60Mb disk -- the BSD distributions
   just don't fit) [...]

Actually, the entire NetBSD/i386 system is ~45MB installed last I
checked.  You can save a bit if you compress the man pages, don't
install the games, etc.

In fact, it's been that small ever since shared libraries went in our
source tree.  Nice to see that your information is up to date.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
  In progress: pmax, sun3.