Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
31 Jan 1999 11:47:59 -0800


In article <linux.kernel.19990131062753.B3942@perlsupport.com>,
Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com> wrote:
>According to david parsons:
>> In article <linux.kernel.19990129230557.S259@perlsupport.com>,
>> Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com> wrote:
>> >There's no reason you can't compile machine A's kernel on machine B.
>>
>> Didn't he just say that this was his largest machine?
>> ____
>> david parsons \bi/ Disk is cheap, but it's not that cheap.
>> \/
>
>Well, actually, it is. Anyone who can afford any computer at all
>can afford a few gigabytes these days.

If you've already got the computer, that isn't necessarily
so; a gig or 4 of disk still costs me (on the west coast
of the United Stated) $120, and that's not chicken feed.

____
david parsons \bi/ Not everyone makes US$300,000/year doing software
\/ development, alas.

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