On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, martinwguy <martinw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> > wrote: >>> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB >> >> i was expecting a large number but not that large. >> >>> I also tried to use a .config file from >>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb >>> and it's still is a big image. >> >> i'm not impressed. what the fuck's going on with the linux kernel??
> [..] > Each piece of software has a high point at which functionality over > bloat hits a maximum, followed by decline. For MSWord it was Word 6. > For Windows it was Windows 3.11. For Mozilla it was about a year after > the open-sourcing of netscape, when it was called Firebird. For Linux > it was somewhere in the 2.4 series. *depressed*. > Of course, it's a wonderful piece of software, runs on anything and > does everything. > I am surprised there are not more minimalist monomaniacs involved in > keeping the core code small. ... especially given that the majority of commits nowadays is from ARM developers. is anyone else in the debian-arm community concerned about this trend? embedded systems aren't exactly known for their humongous resources. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedzsirg6mqvcnp3d-nps7clncrzrce-gzxq1uukq5xo...@mail.gmail.com
