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True, but you would be surprised how little space each driver and feature take. The old and obscure ones are particularly tiny and efficiently implemented by mo
by ploxiln 6y ago
True, but you would be surprised how little space each driver and feature take. The old and obscure ones are particularly tiny and efficiently implemented by modern standards.
For the latest 5.4.z kernel release, the full source tarball, xz-compressed, is 105 MB.
The fairly full-featured ubuntu build is smaller:
Package: linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic
Installed-Size: 11.7 MB
Download-Size: 8887 kB
Package: linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic
Installed-Size: 73.3 MB
Download-Size: 14.5 MB
Now compare to, say, the smallest Windows container image you can find, or AMD or NVidia graphics driver installers ...