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Kolibri - a desktop operating system in under 3 MB
PDP-8:
Nick - one man's bloat is another man's usability. :)
It gets philosophical at some point, and certainly no corporatation is going to look to TC as an example to follow. For one thing, it is a small /core/, but one has the freedom to turn it into a total monster emulating them if they want to.
So it is merely a personal choice. But what about other small brothers like Slitaz, Porteus etc etc? Are they bloated because Slitaz in X form is 50mb distributed - which you can also bloat up to your liking? Or Porteus comes in at a whopping 300mb or so distributed? But by the time you beef up TC, it *TOO* is 300mb or so on disk or more with many of the same features? (albeit with different underlying technical designs).
Thing is, and here I go again - what did our Unix forefathers do when larger amounts of ram and storage became available every few years or so? They jumped on it! But yes, they decried how bloated the CSRG / BSD userland had become, and railed at such wastefully bloated things like cat-v, head/tail, and TCP/IP of sockets vs streams had become.
Just saying - tiny and efficient vs usability is a personal decision, and sometimes an arbitrary limit to one person - is handcuffs to another.
Remember that unproven urban-legend that said Gates once remarked that 640k should be enough for everybody? And of course the ASM guys saying that "he who can't program in 64k can't do so in 640".
Same deal. It all depends on the users choice, which is more philosophical / societal / user skillset, rather than a technical solution.
xor:
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xor:
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