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I wouldn't have thought so, no. Linux is a huge OS by the standards of BeOS and Haiku, with an early-1970s design and layers and layers of legacy cruft between
by lproven 4y ago
I wouldn't have thought so, no.
Linux is a huge OS by the standards of BeOS and Haiku, with an early-1970s design and layers and layers of legacy cruft between the kernel and the user.
Dr Tanenbaum called it obsolete even 30 years ago:
https://www.edn.com/linux-is-obsolete-thread-is-started-january-29-1992/ https://www.edn.com/linux-is-obsolete-thread-is-started-janu...
... and he had a point then.
- LeFantome 4y agoThe kernel is not huge though. Even a modern Linux kernel runs on really, really resource limited hardware ( eg. embedded ). As said above, it is all the other crap that takes up memory and slows it down ( and makes it useful of course ). It is not the Linux kernel that makes the Linux Desktop so much heavier than Haiku though.
- lproven 4y agoNo, that is true and a fair call. Saying that, the first machine I tried (and failed) to install Slackware 1 on was I think a 486 with 8MB of RAM, and I am not sure 21st century Linux will fit on that...