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- From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:45:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
- >>Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
- >
- >So? When was that mentioned?
-
- Sorry,
- it was mentioned by someone else previously.
- I should have said that it was from him, and I was lazy ...
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- >>You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
- >
- >If you strip the system down, it can fit in quite narrow spaces...
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- But the problem is that you have to install first.
-
- >Anyway, not to dispute about that, BSD is a system with more
- >disk space requirements.
- >
- >BUT...
- >
- >>Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me). The size was around 10M !
- >
- >It's nonsense because it was compiled with symbolic info!
- >strip X386
- >and the size is little over a meg.
-
- I asked the ftp site manager to put the stripped version, since
- not many people will debug Xserver anyway.
- It was ignored and I had to download the stupid symbols ....
- Later, I stripped Xserver, but
- as far as I remember, the stripped binary was around 3M (I could be
- wrong and I don't want to do it again).
- Anyway, I could never succeed in runing X on 386bsd on my 386 with 4M.
- Whereas I am very satisfied with X and Linux on the same configuration.
-
- >Just trying to correct some of the WORST misunderstandings
- >about the free OS wars...
- >
- > TJL
-
- Sorry for the confusion.
-
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