From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) Subject: Re: 386 BSD Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:45:55 GMT
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 ...
>>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...
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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