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From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Feb 14 18:15:46 2001

healyzh skrev:

>Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> > Are Net and OpenBSD light-weight OSes? Holy smokes!
>>
>> OpenBSD, no. NetBSD, yes.

>I'm curious why you say OpenBSD isn't light-weight. It'll run just fine on
>a system with as little as 16MB, and works great on something like 24MB
>(which I think is what my firewall has). I think I've run it in as little
>as 8MB on a Alpha based DEC Multia.

Are you saying 16 MB is little? And I thoiught the over 4 MB demands of NetBSD
was pushing it...

>Basically I'm just wondering if this is a different version of Light-Weight
>than I'm used to. (Of course I've run Linux and X-Windows on a 386sx/16
>based laptop with Math Coprocessor and 4MB RAM, now that's a tight fit)

Linux is a big heap of bloat. It seems every UNIX is, too.
My definition of light-weight is floppy-based, sub-4 MB.

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