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> 35 MB is huge! For context, 35MB is two and a half boxes of high-density floppy disks. There were whole operating systems, complete with applications, smalle
by cesarb 6y ago
> 35 MB is huge!
For context, 35MB is two and a half boxes of high-density floppy disks. There were whole operating systems, complete with applications, smaller than that.
- pantalaimon 6y agoWere? My initrd + vmlinuz is still smaller than that today on a stock Ubuntu kernel.
- perl4ever 6y agoI remember when a OO framework like MacApp would produce a minimal "hello world" program that took up hundreds of KB and that was considered almost too bloated to be usable. I can't remember exactly how much, but the better part of a floppy to do nothing was ridiculous.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoSeems like a culture clash between “why would you not use your distro’s shared libraries?” and “containerize all the things!”
- qiqitori 6y agoAren't Go binaries completely static? That sort of is a large part of an operating system (the libraries minus hardware-related libraries) -- Just add a kernel (tens of MB) and whatever userland stuff you need to get your hardware to work (which could be "nothing" in some cases) and you're ready to go.
- pjmlp 6y agoQNX used to be shipped on a single high density floppy.