> I don’t think it makes sense for the suckless guys to try trimming down that
> bloated mess (Linux kernel).
>
> To be honest I’m wondering if the love they give OpenBSD, as a desktop OS, is
> misplaced. OpenBSD is 22M lines if you include the entirety of the files, and
> 16M counting just the lines with code on them. Granted I think that number is
> across the whole base distribution which makes it smaller than the Linux
> kernel alone. But OpenBSD is still REALLY fat compared to operating systems
> of the past. FreeDOS is ~50k lines, and then there are things like KolibriOS
> to consider.
>
> I don’t know if you guys have seen this, but I’d like to share a video from
> YT that I think is appropriate for this group:
>
> watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
>
That video is pure gold!
I'll revise my article wrt OpenBSD but it's the least evil when seen wrt
usability. I doubt it's that gigantic though! How do you visualize the
solution? Writing from scratch targeting an embedded board?
Thanks
Sagar Acharya
