From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 23:08:44 GMT
In article <C8019K.n2K@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>Sorry. Not correct. Even though Solaris 2.1 is big - it's not that big that
>it can't be fitted onto a local disk. We have a Sparcstation 1+ running
>Solaris 2.1 and it uses 200MB of disk space for root and usr. Solaris 2.1
>can run swapless too (if I'm not mistaken - we use swap so I haven't
>bothered to check - some news postings I've read claim that it's so)
>just like Linux.
It can indeed. In fact, it does --- the install procedure boots Solaris off
the CD-ROM and runs it entirely in RAM with no swap space so you can set up
the disk.
>Now 200MB is about twice the size of Linux SLS but then, it contains
>quite some programs too and they are compiled for a RISC processor ->
>bigger binaries.
SVR4 is in a nasty position: whenever it wasn't possible to reconcile the
System V and BSD versions of something, both had to be provided. Which is why
SVR4 has both NFS and RFS in it. (Sun is apparently planning to drop RFS, so
at least *that* chunk of disk will be free soon.)
Which is not to say that that's the only source of the bloat, or that it
shouldn't be fixed....
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.orgIt's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... Linux: the free 32-bit operating system, available NOW. Why waaaaaait for NT?