According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated"

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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Re:Bloat is often moot

[L4t3r4lu5]

Torvalds' use of the term "Bloated" in this case refers specifically to a loss of performance and an increase in size and memory usage, not of confusion

Tell me, when your girlfriend says that she feels "bloated" once a month, do you try and explain to her why the ironing won't do itself, because she said she's "confused"?

I've never known the word "bloated" to mean anything other than "fat, lazy, potentially leaking in an embarrassing way, temperamental performance issues, and a predisposition to just sitting there and going nothing."

Just like the Windows kernel.