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According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated"

Posted by timothy on from the he-was-there-when-it-happened dept.

mjasay writes "Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a somewhat surprising comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: 'Linux is bloated.' While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux 'huge and scary now,' according to Torvalds." TuxRadar provides a small capsule of his remarks as well, as does The Register.

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  1. Unix, FreeBSD by pgmrdlm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Problem solved.

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  2. Re:Problem by jellomizer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux. It is a dead horse... Deal with it. Its a Dyeing market. Let Microsoft go down with that ship. Linux should be designed better for cloud/distributive processing, and server stuff. We are getting to a point we don't need desktops we need a thin client that can connect to the network. And let someone else do the work.

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  3. Re:Obvious weird Windows comparison by speedtux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, but when I installed Windows 7, my wireless network card, printer, 3D graphics, webcam, bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, dual displays, and Touch Diamond 2 mobile phone all connected and worked immediately.

    Unless Windows 7 has changed radically how drivers work under Windows, those usually require user installation on drivers. So, in different words, you're bullshitting.

    I've tried to get that all working (all hardware at least 18 months old now, except the phone) in Ubuntu since 6.x

    Funny, on Ubuntu 9.04, all of those really do just work, with no driver installation or other kinds of user interaction.

    Maybe you just got Windows and Ubuntu confused.

  4. Re:MIcrokernels - life without patches by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Great post describing QNX. But you forgot the part where you actually make some kind of point.

    What's your point?

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  5. Yet more self-promotion by the ego on legs. by CountBrass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Someone wake me when Torvalds says something interesting. Oh wait, I won't live that long.

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    1. Re:Yet more self-promotion by the ego on legs. by Slashcrap · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Someone wake me when Torvalds says something interesting. Oh wait, I won't live that long.

      Well, that is good news. Although I would have preferred it if you'd died prior to writing this gay fucking comment.