Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:38:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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On 20 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Linux started out as 10k lines of code. Was that good? It's not 1.5M > lines of code. Is that bad? >
I think that the fact that you're getting the OS into 1.5 million lines of code is great; look at Windows. Microsoft stated at one point that they had up to 11 million lines of code in Windows 95-A. Ouch... try that one on for size. I'd hate to see how many gigabytes their source tree takes up.
The thing about Linux is that it works, dammit. I have been using it for two years now. I've had 2 crashes in that entire time: One fatal crash with 2.0.36 when I used a buggy SCSI card, and one when I was using 2.2.something that happened with something to do with the networking code (PPP or some other Internet code). But the thing is that that's *2* crashes in *2* years. That's pretty damn good... considering I used to get 2 crashes a *DAY* in Windows.
What matters is not the fact that Linux's source is large. A compiled, compressed kernel is nearly always under 600k. In fact, I even built a completely static kernel once and it was under 600k compressed. The fact of the matter is, though, that it works, and despite it's size, it's damn fast. My 486, running 2.2.9, is a lot faster than my parent's Pentium II 200MHz running Windows 98. I can do work with it. And, X is even faster in some cases on this computer than their PII. Granted -- I don't use X much. I won't until I get a good, kick ass computer that I'm comfortable with using X in. But I'll still use my favorite programs - pine, aumix, lynx. What can I say? They're efficient :).
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