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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. Kind of like the US Federal government... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's becoming increasingly clear that Obongo views speeches and talk-show appearances as an acceptable substitute for competent governance. No wonder Jimmy Carter loves him. Carter is probably eager to shed his moniker of "Most Impotent President of the Last 100 Years."

  2. Linux Need To Move On To GPL v3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux should be release under GPL v3 so it can be compatible with Apache license. This would help Linux move forward, invent, and advance the field of computer science instead of just trying to reinvent GCD, ZFS, DTRACE, ect..

  3. iCache? by rreyelts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The kernel is huge and bloated and our iCache footprint is scary.

    I always knew there was something scary about Apple's instruction caches.