On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> That's not shaping up to become such a good idea anymore. The current > kernel has 2,440,919 physical source lines of code as of Kernel 2.4.2, The smallest 2.4.10 kernel that I could squeeze out is still over 2.5MB (uncompressed), and that does not include the modules, of which I have lots. So 2.4.X has really become a huge monolith. > worry some people around here? We're worried. > It makes you wonder why BSD never seems to have achieved the level of > popularity Linux enjoys. The Jolitzes had a great big head start over > Linus Torvalds in making a working system, apparently, but it seems > Linux won. While BSD is open source, the closely-knit BSD team never really accepted contributions from outsiders. This, I believe, is the primary reason why BSD is not as popular. It is not truly a community effort. PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
