comparing notepad and xemacs is not really it.
compare notepad to knotes 107k
even if xemacs was a linux program (which is not)
you might as well compare word to ed(74k:)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "RE: USB modem Linux
|driver":
| >
| > On 20-Mar-2001 Hetz Ben Hemo wrote:
| >
| > > (Funny note - the Windows driver is 2.59MB, the Mac driver is 7.54MB and the
| > > Linux driver is ... 300k :)
| >>
| >
| > Not funny - SAD. But then, what's new about Windows being bloatware :-)
|
| I bet that 90% of that 3MB (or 7MB) is a fancy installation program with
| fancy help and troubleshooting, and several fancy applications for later
| configuring the modem, and using it in all sorts of ways. And I bet that all
| that is probably missing in Linux...
|
| Compare to what you get when you install an HP deskjet driver (for example)
| on windows, to what you get with pbm2ppa (only 20K!!!).
|
| So not everything is bad in Windows ;)
| Besides, what is Linux if not bloatware? My Redhat 7 installation is almost
| 2 gigabytes in size (with every piece of free software in the world and
| its uncle thrown in)! ;)
|
| Another proof that Linux is bloatware: compare the tiny "notepad" to the
| 100 MB (!!) XEmacs...
|
|
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