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Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat'
Cadef writes "According to a story on CNet News.com, Nicholas Negroponte says that Linux has gotten too fat, and will have to be slimmed down before it will be practical for the $100 laptop project. From the article: 'Suddenly it's like a very fat person [who] uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.'"
It's not fat. The architecture is just big-boned.
Just strip out some of the useless crap like foreign language support and make everyone learn English. That should save a few megabytes...
Now, where were we going to be sending these laptops again?
(Seriously, I don't see the problem... not only is the code open so you can delete what you want but nearly everything has a multitude of options to disable large chunks of functionality to make it smaller at will, modularity at it's best. There are a few things that it would be fair to level the criticism at (OO.o for example) but on the whole most Linux software is pretty good - good enough to cram the essentials onto a USB drive at least.)
Beep beep.
So Linux has something in common with Windows.
Now the Linux fanboys can claim to be a mainstream OS!
No, because fat people become experts at not moving.
KFG
.. my friggin ADSL modem runs linux and a web server. My friggin modem!
I mean, come on, it's like, I don't know, based on Apple II or a pocket calculator processor with, uhmm, like 100-200kb RAM or something? dunno, but it was cheaper than $100 and it's friggin modem.
A friggin modem... a fri.. a fr..
Oh ok... I rest my case anyways.
Linux isn't fat, most popular distros are, but noone forces people to use them.
Linux responded to Negroponte by saying "I may be fat, but you're ugly and I can lose weight!"
Fact is, I've become so used to incoherent, pointless, misspelled, gramatically incorrect, factually incorrect, stream-of-conscionouss postings in Slashdot, that it just never occurred to me this one might be any different.
Join the NFSNET. Our prime goal is making little numbers out of big ones. http://www.nfsnet.org/
Zing.
Remember, open source is free as in speech, not free as in bear.
Redhat 7.2, Luxury!
In my day, we had to download linux onto floppy disks over a 2400 baud modem connection. We'd start downloading 5 hours before we went to bed, eat a cup of cold gravel, work 32 hours down the mine, and when we got home our fathers would whip us within an inch of our lives, and then if we were lucky, the download was finished.
http://jesus.everdense.com/
And it STILL got done before Gentoo.
You just made my morning with that post :). Funniest thing I've read in a while :).
If you don't go up to +5 in a minute, I shall just have to accept that There Is No Mod.
Still laughing,
Gaurav
"I was the longest holdout for the crank being on the laptop. I was wrong," he said, adding, "If you're a 10-year-old, maybe you can get your four-year-old to pedal for you."
Evidently he's not complaining about just kernel being fat...
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Uhoh, I wonder how long it will take for the Tuttles City Manager to call Bill Gates to demand that he uninstall their FAT from his ass.
Tanenbaum is that you? I'm still afraid no one is listening!
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
Yeah... and while we're at it, why don't we give a nice and shiny abacus instead of a boring old laptop, too?
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.