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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5468 comp.os.linux.misc:35589 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80094 alt.folklore.computers:73637 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!vermeer.ecs.soton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: lsn92@ecs.soton.ac.uk (L S Ng) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 22 Feb 1995 01:45:12 -0000 Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3ie4v8$m9a@vermeer.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <damir-1002952345140001@damir.mindspring.com> <3ho4v4$1p4@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <3hsttm$2ep@sun1.bham.ac.uk> <3i2aji$80m@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr> <badger.793039123@aries> <D45nJ6.9Is@proteon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vermeer.ecs.soton.ac.uk In <D45nJ6.9Is@proteon.com> jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) writes: >badger@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes: >>> I wholeheartedly agree with you. OSs are supposed to make resources >>>available to you, not to take them away. Even OS/2 should be trimmed down >>>to 4 Mb (don't tell me it runs well in 4 Mb, I've tried it.) >>Well...I think this becoming increasingly irrelevant as memory gets cheaper. >>Think about even a compact operating system like Linux vs the original >>implementation of UNIX that ran in 64K (yes, 64 *kilobytes*). Wouldn't >>users of it consider Linux to be bloated? >Yes, we do. The press talk big about QNX... Anyone any opinion?